Amd or Intel

[cryotek]

EDIT: yes, I know there was a topic simular to this, HOWEVER it went offtopic and turned into a flame war. I will not allow that to happen here.

I am going to start this up, I don't want a flame war, just a clean discussion. I'll start with AMD, heres my reasons why:

Pretty much I have used AMD since the p75 (also known as 80486DX5 5x86)came out on the socket 3 motherboards. Clock speed of 133MHz, 4.0 multiplier and 33MHz bus! woohoo!

I built my first computer with it, i was 12 or 13 then, but times were different with computer building. It was after our old packard bell which was a 386 (intel i think) and i remember installing a math-co processor! Anyways, since then I've always trusted AMD and have been with them since. I have used some intels only for them to burn out after awhile. I recently dug up my old p75 and to my amazment it works. I considered installing DSL(Damn Small Linux) on it and using it as a router, but its the ISA motherboard which well, ISA cards are hard to come by.

Despite AMD being considered an "underdog" AMD has toppled over intel many times. I remember when the Athlon XP 3000+ clocked at 2.17GHz out performed a P4 clocked at 3.2GHz by 17%. I don't remember which model P4 it was. but it was an older one obviously. I can't wait to see how AMD fights back with the K8L and their new 5.2GT/sec bus.

I can't really say i hate intel or they suck, they do have some good things like conroe, and the cheaper Pentium D's my firend uses the Pentium D's as dedicated server boxes and he said they're wicked fast.


So tell me what You all choose, and why. I don't want to hear Intel sucks, or AMD sucks. Give good vaild reasons and arguements

[skeletor]

Yes, I will have to say that as of a couple months ago I really didn't like AMD that much. But that was just based off of how a couple friends pc's ran, which was less than optimal anyways for "other reasons". I had built many intel pc's, and right now I have 8 at my place running 24/7 with never a hickup from any of them. Then just a couple months ago I built my dad an AMD pc. Nothing too special, just a Athlon 64 3200+ with a DFI mobo 512 mem, onboard everything and I was quite surprised at how well it handled anything I threw at it (considering onboard graphics, soung, and nic card). You could probly get a comparable Pentium D for about the same price though. I would have to say though if you want to go extreme with overclocking, watercooling, graphics and all, AMD would be the way to go. From what little I have worked with AMD it seemed to run cooler with less cooling, while doing about as much as my p4 with HT running at 3.2 GHz and a gig of mem.

[Drocona]

As for now I'm an Intel guy, I've always been the one for high clockspeeds. Hearing multiple thoughts about AMD I never bought one so I don't have experience with AMD. Although I will buy an AMD proc very soon, I've become old and wise enough to see that there might actually be something good in AMD. I'm tired of all the prejudices, I'm going to experiment with it myself when I have money to spend.

But for now, I'm an Intel guy

[Hollanda]

I allways get "the best bang for a buck"

Few months ago it was the dualcore AMD Opteron/X2 and now it's the Intel Core Duo (both desktop and server cpu's).

To compare: I just ordered 2 AMD Opteron socket 940 270's ( 2 x 2 ghz) for 330 euro each (to upgrade an excisting server). For 300 euro I have 1 Intel Conroe E6600 which is even faster than a AMD FX62.

[chconline]

I choose whatevers good. I personally own an AMD Athlon 64 based machine, but I guess its time to switch back to Intel with their Core 2 Duos!

[DarkZealot89]

Whatever you can afford, howerver I tend to lean towards intel as they have better server chips and overal the core duo 2 is just sweet.

[USB]

my choice was amd, but these core duos... i WANT ONE!

[Aerosparx]

Drocona Wrote:As for now I'm an Intel guy, I've always been the one for high clockspeeds. Hearing multiple thoughts about AMD I never bought one so I don't have experience with AMD. Although I will buy an AMD proc very soon, I've become old and wise enough to see that there might actually be something good in AMD. I'm tired of all the prejudices, I'm going to experiment with it myself when I have money to spend.

But for now, I'm an Intel guy

Old, maybe. Wise, no.

If you was wise, you'd know that higher clockspeeds don't mean anything. An AMD Athlon 3000+ at say...2.2GHz, would smash to pieces any Intel Celeron, Pentium D, Pentium 4. AMD has made better use of it's clocks per cycle, the only things the Intel series are good at is calculations and the likes.

Although, recently Intel has took the performance crown with it's Core 2 Duo Series and has finally realised higher clock speeds don't equal higher and better performance.

[Dub]

im AMD...i was using a PentiumD 830 3.0 Ghz....ran so slugish...i started using an old Athlon64 3500+ 2.2 ran alot smoother....im now using athlin64 X2 4800+ 2.4 YAY!

[Bonsaihero]

hehe allmost same story as crytek Lol i mean i'm 15 my first pc was a celeron, builded it by my self, now its still intel, i tryed to have AMD pc before, but i will allways(well for now ) stick with intel .