EpicShweetness I just hope they can keep themselves afloat. I don't just appreciate competition, I more than anything fear it's absence. Without someone to compete to NVIDIA or Intel we would have $5000 Titan's and $3000 Extreme Editions :eek:.

EpicShweetness That might be exaggerating

EpicShweetness but it's non the less a world I wouldn't like to be in.

EpicShweetness Go out their and pick up an AMD product, and support the little guy :rockout:

Competition of course is good, but Intel has been for some time competing against itself. Intel owns ~94% of the professional x86 market (and has been at least 90% for the last 5 years), but their chipsets and Xeon CPU line have remained pretty much static in price. Kind of shoots your weird theory down.Yes. Yes it is.People have a certain amount of money to spend regardless of the number of vendors in the marketplace...and FWIW, when AMD and Intel were going toe-to-toe in CPUs (Athlon v Pentium) all that happened was they price matched each other. Have a grand in your pocket? If you were looking at the top bin from either company youhave got $1 change. Likewise the second tier CPU was around $500-700 on average - again, from both vendors.The AMD Athlon (T-bird) launched at $850 in June '99, the 1GHz version at $1299 eight months later. In between Intel launched the Coppermine P3 at the same $850 price point. The pricing of both AMD and Intel was pegged pretty much equal up until Conroe launched.GPUs? Yeah, heaps of competition. Nvidia price the GTX 690 at $999, AMD price the HD 7990 at $999. Equal performanceusually equates to equal MSRP give or take 10-15% in general. Where it doesn't equate it becomes more a function of brand perception, and slashing prices, while attractive to the consumer, does little to enforce the perception of a strong brand. Neither AMD or Nvidia (or Intel for that matter) sell for any less than the sucker holding the wallet is willing to cough over, and why market shares have stayed pretty much static over the years.Time to slash your wrists then. A duopoly of AMD and Nvidia seem to have reached an "". Both content to wage war on bullet points rather than get into a price war. I doubt that situation will change unless inventory starts to back up.Says the guy with the Ivy Bridge CPU and Z77 board :roll: