*WINNERS ANNOUNCED* Win 3 sets of 8GB AMD DDR3 gaming RAM with AMD SA

James

James

MyGaming Alumnus
Courtesy of our friends at AMD South Africa we have three sets of 8GB AMD gaming-grade DDR3 RAM to give away to three MyGaming community members.

Specs:

  • DDR3 1600MHz (9-9-9-28)
  • 8GB (2x4GB) kit - 1.5v
  • RoHS Compliant

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How to enter

Tell us about your experience with and perception of AMD products. This feedback is valuable for AMD South Africa, so do not be afraid to be honest (it will not affect your chances of winning).

Your feedback is your entry into this competition.

Rules

- Post once in this thread. This is your entry into the competition.

- Make sure you are up to speed with the MyGaming Forum rules.

- Minimum of 20 lifetime posts required to qualify by time of the draw.

- Spamming to get yourself to 20 posts will get you disqualified.

- Reviving old threads and making pointless posts will not be tolerated and will be monitored. Fair warning.

- Entrants must be a resident of and residing in South Africa.

- Entry into the competition closes at 11AM, Monday, 10 September 2012.

Winner announce

- On Monday, 10 September 2012, the winners will be chosen.

- The winners will be announced in this thread, as well as in a new thread in the MyGaming competition forum.

- Reminders will be sent out via the MyGaming twitter stream and MyGaming Facebook page.

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The competition starts now. Good luck and have fun!
 
In the last year i have switched to AMD.both in CPU and GPU...dont know why i never changed over sooner.In my opinion they are the best value for money.HOWEVER, the recent Bulldozer blunder has worried me a little and im hoping that Piledriver will be move market competitive since Bulldozer was the same price as Intels Sandy-Bridge but lower performance.

But overall for gamers on a budget id say AMD is the way to go.their sockets dont change every second generation which allows users to keep the same motherboard and simply swap out their CPU when upgrading.besided the obvious problem of having to find a bracket so you can keep your current cooler
 
Their products have improved massively from 10 years ago. Back then I wouldn't get close to an AMD processor, but now I own one. The value for money on their CPUs and GPUs are superior in my opinion, with performance to match.
 
Been using AMD since my 1st PC years back, and have always used and upgraded to better AMD CPUs. Haven't had any real problems.
All I can say is... You get what you pay for.. Having said that ... Anyone wanting to start out with a reasonably price PC (whether for normal home use or gaming) should consider this product.
 
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I have AMD products for both my CPU and GPU.

I am happy with the performance overall, the only issue I have is with their Linux drivers:
The image on my screen gets offset to the right at certain resolutions, or the image gets stretched a bit so that the edges of the image extend beyond the edges of the screen at certain resolutions.

I use the ATI Catalyst Control Centre to work around this issue for now, but I hope that this is resolved in an upcoming driver update, especially since Steam is being ported to Linux this year.

Besides that issue, I have had no problems with my ATI hardware, and would recommend ATI to anyone that asks for hardware purchasing advice, especially if they are gamers.

ATI offers better value for money compared to the competition
 
I have built my 5th amd Machine back in 2009 (currently it serves as my lan pc, Athlon II x4 620 paired with a radeon 5570 and it still runs most new stuff decently whenever i go to lan with it)

(previous ones i didnt assemble, too young back then) and I have never had any major problems with amd systems (apart from a sempron 64 that died a few ago)

Previously I had (actually still have it stashed somewhere)
Athlon 64 3000+
athlon XP 1800+
K6 200
and before that a rare 5x86 133 Mhz 486 Cpu !
amd 486 Dx 2 80
and my AMD love actually started with a 40Mhz 386DX (which was orsome back then since it was able to run windows 95 (with 8 mb's of Ram, yes 8megs, True Story)
 
The first AMD product I bought was a Radeon HD 4850. A few months later I bought a second one, and was really impressed with the dual card preformance scaling. I also moved over to AMD CPUs at around the same time, picking up a quad core Phenom 2.

Since then I have not looked back. Over the past few years AMD has delivered some very solid products, esepecially in terms of price-performance. I'm now running a full AMD rig - Phenom II X4 970, HD 6970 and 4GBs of DDR3 1333MHz RAM. I had 8GBs but 4 died so now I'm scutting along on just the 4GB.
 
My last cpu was an amd. It lasted a good many years. And most of my graphics cards were amd.

Good value for money.

The only thing was with my phenom black edition was that it got really hot :-/
 
Well the first pc I ever bought for myself was an AMD Athlon 2 245, it worked really well till I came into some money and decided to upgrade. It was a choice that ended up going the way of Intel since the performance was better.
My first laptop was AMD which worked really well, till I sold it to my sister who doesn't know much about computers but it is now on its way out unfortunately.
I have always owned ATI gpu's and have been very impressed with their value for money and impressive performance.
I probably won't go to AMD cpu's unless they improve their performance but I will always support their gpu brand.
 
I remember entering a AMD Dirt3 comp, winning, but was so busy with work that week, I didnt check the forums, and the prize went to the next person! Haha...

I'm using an AMD Phenom X6 1055t, OC'd to 3.2GHz, Turbo's to 3.5~3.6Ghz. And up until yesterday, also an HD6870 gfx card.
But now I'm using an HD7870 2GB OC edition, simply awesome peformance for the price (beats the GTX660Ti in this metric!) That is what I look for, because these days, even a mid range setup will give you a top notch gaming experience (not that the HD7870 can be called midrange ;)). And that is why I choose AMD.

I must mention that the new range of CPU's (bulldozer) have been lacking, not providing any noticeable benefit over the previous gen.
Which was a bad move from AMD, when they could have just die-shrunk their PhenomII X6 series, with some tweaks to get even higher performance and lower power consumption (I know its not as simple as that). Maybe even get a native 8 core series going, Phenom X8 anyone? :cool:
 
CPU: I myself own an AMD rig. Phenom II x2 550 BE and at the time the price I paid for an AMD rig compared to the Intel equavelent was much lower, but since the intro of Bulldozer, the price has gone up and the performance did not improve that much. Currently if I upgrade now I would rather go for an Intel rig. I always look at price vs performance as I am a budget builder.

GPU: AMD has always been ahead of Nvidia, I have always had better performance and the prices have always been better on the AMD side. The 7xxx series is a bit expensive in SA at the moment, but I am sure it will drop soon when the flush out the 6xxx series cards and AMD will stay best for price vs performance.
 
Last AMD CPU I had was a lowly Sempron. Still, it was awesome at the time. I'm not too interested in their latest range of CPU's. Intel has won me over with their i7 2600k and I've not looked anywhere else since.

Love the graphics cards though, been using their cards for a few years now and will continue to do so with the next upgrade.

Edit: Overall, my experience with AMD products have been great, no problems at all. I just think they need to catch up with their line of processors.
:o
 
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I would never have touched an AMD product a few years ago but vast improvements have drastically changed my opinion on them. I recently upgraded my rig which now includes a bulldozer and a HD6870 gfx card and they have been performing perfectly, exactly what I now expect from them. Performance and price are both good and that is why I now stick with AMD.
 
been an AMD user since 2005, their GPU department is doing great, though wish i could say the same for their CPUs, there are no where near as powerful as their Intel ones that go for the same price, even mother boards are not any cheaper these days. it was very cost effective to buy AMD machines few years back, now days for only few bucks more you can get much better Intel system. unfortunately AMD is very very inactive in SA, shortage of stock might explain the bad prices, suppliers don't seem to be too keen on AMD products. APUs are no where to be found and even only the low end ones are available, not to mention they are a tad more expensive than better available i3s and i5s . AMD really needs to be more active in SA. nowadays only fanboys and people who dont know about CPU performance buy AMD CPUs. i am a fan boy. i really am. but as it is AMD is no good.
 
Switched over to AMD many years back after comparing AMD to a similarly speced competitor. The AMD blew it away. Haven't looked back since. AMD / ATi make the best bang for buck GPU's IMO.
 
Over the last 15-20 years I've bought both AMD vs Intel CPUs plus Nvidia vs ATI products. I'm manufacturer agnostic and tend to go with value for money middle of the line performance and whatever the reviews or general consensus is in terms of bang for buck. No major complaints either way, but then again I'm not an overclocking fanatic :)
 
Win 3 sets of 8GB AMD DDR3 gaming RAM with AMD SA

Just bought my Step-Son a AMD GPU, these are reasonably available here, but trying to buy a AMD CPU and motherboard is a real mission. Local dealers only stock INTEL, which pees me of, and buying online is not always possible due to time constraints.
 
Absolutely brilliant bang for buck (value for money) GPU's.
Sadly their CPU's are not getting the same love at the moment when compared to the Intel i5 and i7 series chips.
Huge AMD fan and would have loved to go all out AMD, but currently the best long term buy was a intel/amd mix.
 
Currently I am on an Intel based platform and have few to little issues. I try not to be a fanboy and always keep an open mind and would buy whichever brand is the best according to my research at the time of my purchase.

Across all my gaming and pc years, I must admit though, even when Intel brings out a better product, AMD still wins the battle when it comes to value for money :cool:
 
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