AMD vs. Intel

[Will Nave]

Here's a good article outlining a comparison test that Tom's Hardware did on the Intel vs. AMD, enjoy!

http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041217/

[Rob Williams]

Great and well put together article.

AMD for the win, either way :P

[brettmar]

I disagree on the AMD winning. :P

Granted, I love AMD. I have tried the A64 line very little, so my knowledge may be somewhat lacking among that line.

BUT: Do a search on your windows drive for *.exe . When complete, select all, and open. AMD Based chips will lock after XXX amount of open processes, where Intel will load them ALL. Multitasking with intel is so much smoother.

AMD however, does have the best bottom line.

[Rob Williams]

Yes, Intel is better at handling that type of thing. I still prefer AMD because of the gaming aspect. If I was to choose a high end Intel, or high end AMD, it would be AMD for sure.

Unless the game is intensly math heavy, then Intel would likely win.

[Nosebiter]

I'll simply say this, I've always been happier with Intel then AMD. That is not to detract from AMD, although I think VIA went a long way to ruin AMD's stability reputation from the begining. Nothing like crappy chipsets to ruin a processors rep, and coming back from that is a tough road.

[brettmar]

I want dual core NOW!

I know both platforms are coming out with new and exciting products, but something tells me that the Intel dual core procs with the supposed Hyper transport rollout for Intel chipsets will blow everything we have ever seen out of the water. I wonder if the editions of the new D.C. procs will allow each core SMP support, and have each an individual l2 and l3 cache.

[madstork91]

Intel: Can we say Stability? Better Rep? Paying me to make this post?

[leecho7]

I would have to go with AMD, I had my XP 2400 ever since it came out... and I love it...

[Muddy]

I have 2 good comps in my house. A 2.8 ghz intel and a AMD 64 3200+. The difference between those 2 is sooooo big. They are not really comparable but hey tough. lol AMD is gaming intel is other stuff end of discussion

[Mike Delorme]

I want dual core NOW!

I know both platforms are coming out with new and exciting products, but something tells me that the Intel dual core procs with the supposed Hyper transport rollout for Intel chipsets will blow everything we have ever seen out of the water. I wonder if the editions of the new D.C. procs will allow each core SMP support, and have each an individual l2 and l3 cache.

The problem with thease are the price. Regular folk cant afford thease things when they first come out. Except for the AMD 64, AMD's are veryfairly priced when they come out.

[madstork91]

Intel 4 life foo!

Dual processors sound nice... But if such a thing were to come about in a mass production i would have to finally give in and buy AMDs...

[PUTALE]

perpetual argument of amd vs intel. I think each one of them have their strength and weakness. AMD used to be a worse performer than intel but it has caught up and now it has many features that intel is learning. I think depend on what you need to do, you really can't go wrong choosing one or the other.

[Word.]

Well i agree AMD is a great gaming CPU, i too chose AMD 64 3000+ Works Damn good it keeps me happy with its performace. but intel is also a great CPU but intel is more for like a multimedia type of CPU so if your going to be hard core into the top games go AMD i assure you its great.

They both have there pros and cons so dont be killing your brain when you go to buy one or help someone else buy one.





AMD 64 3000+ S939 1.80Ghz, DFI lanparty mobo 1 gig DDR PC3200, MSI 6600GT 128 PCI-E SLI compatable.




PS ... i cant spell for shit.

[Mike Delorme]

Conclusion: AMD for games, Intel for multitasting. Cant we all just agree to dissagree?

[PUTALE]

well, I think the idea that amd for game is a little bit misunderstood. AMD just a tad better at gaming given the same clockspeed and intel is better at multitasking/multimedia. The truth is that both performs equally well under any circustances, we are just a tad picky with the like 5% diff in the benchmarks:). Though, AMD do have a slightly advantages of placing cpu at a bit lower prices but still I think high end cpu is expensive no matter what, I mean once you have to shed out like 200 for a cpu the extra 20 or so is really not that huge:).

[madstork91]

Untill they either get better scores of music in computer games (like 80 songs instead of the norm 5-10) I will continue running Winamp in the background as to better fit my audio stimulation needs.

Intel is thus the better for me.

[Muddy]

Untill they either get better scores of music in computer games (like 80 songs instead of the norm 5-10) I will continue running Winamp in the background as to better fit my audio stimulation needs.

Intel is thus the better for me.
lol amd would be better for that. winamp isnt a hard working program. It performs exactly the same on both amd and intel. Multimedia is like 3d compiling and stuff like that

[Tech-Daddy]

INtel = space heater in my book!
;)

AMD rectified alot of their problems when they got off of the socket7 and into their own SlotA/SocketA.

THe K5 and K6 were not very reliable.

But once the Athlon hit... omg, the writing was on the wall.
Intel has had to reduce itself to monopolistic attacks on it's vendors to *force* them to produce more Intel chipsets than possible competing products (read: AMD)

The Japaneese Federal Trade Commission just slapped Intel with a HUGE complaint. Now Europe is looking into them.

I was a total Intel ho, before I stepped into the Slot A Athlon, SocketA Athlon and AthlonXP's... have not looked back since. Stability was right where I rememberd it from the P3 days, but less cost and steadly more performance.

I now run on a FX53/socket939 rig... and I continually rave about this thing.
Intel charges too much for their stuff, and acts like an 800 lb gorilla when it feels threatened.

Instead of using that brain that they have there in San Jose... they flex their market muscle and threaten their vendors to keep AMD out of the market. And that sux...

My $.02
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[Rob Williams]

FX-53.. damn nice. Put your system specs in your sig, I'm interested to see the rest of that beast :D

[Tech-Daddy]

It is a highly modified rig... which forum can I post pics up in?
Is there a size limit (length and width) that the sigs are limited to?
:D

[madstork91]

AMD is like McDonalds. Everyone has either had a bad experiance or knows someone who has. But people come back because its cheap and isn't half bad.

[Bobbythecat]

In my ignorant days, I thought Intel was great because...well...I've never heard of an alternative. lol
Upon arriving to the US for college, I came upon people who build their own computers, and was introduced to AMD. Most kids still believe that AMD is inferior to Intel quite blindly. Kids thought that AMD was no good because it typically was 1Ghz behind Intel. True, the much older AMD processors sucked. But doing some specific surfing of reviews and data sheets on the more recent processors, AMD does much better with every clock cycle today. No matter which impartial site one goes to, besides the Pentium M and it's power consumption, AMD processors own Intel processors. AMD consumes less power per clock, and does a better job at handling what us gamers throw at it.

[Flipi]

There is a thing about performance. It comes with a price. And given the today's cpu's characteristicks amd is slightly better on price/ performance ratios. Not to forget what heat monsters are Intel's ones given the frequencies they work on, and finally it will save some money on your electricity bill too.
Anyway it has finally come the time for Intel to have a real competiton which can only lead to our well-beeing. After all it can be a matter of taste which cpu you pick...

[Cool Barn]

I'll simply say this, I've always been happier with Intel then AMD. That is not to detract from AMD, although I think VIA went a long way to ruin AMD's stability reputation from the begining. Nothing like crappy chipsets to ruin a processors rep, and coming back from that is a tough road.
I totally agree. A CPU is only as good as its chipset, and in that regard I believe that Intel is still superior. Sure the Nforce4 for AMD has gotten some pretty good reviews, but for my money give me an Intel CPU plus Intel chipset. I don't care that the benchmarks say I have made a bad decision - I just know I have had better computing experiences with Chipzilla than I have with AMD.

[fussnfeathers]

There's another major difference between AMD and Intel.............

AMD Fanboi Syndrome. :D

Seriously, every time I see one of these threads, it's usually started by an AMD fan pounding his chest and bragging about how much better AMD is than the Evil Intel Empire. Meanwhile, the Intel guys are just going about their daily work or gaming...........so in that regard, Intel is the winner, they actually get used more. :p

[DarkSynergy]

See, AMD fans aren't any worse then Intel's so we can't go down that road. I love me some AMD procs but from what I have seen, Conroe is going to fist AMD until they come out with something better. But, as always, AMD will be about 6 months behind Intel in releasing the next best thing and will probably best Intel. Everyone gets so hyped up in arguing witch is better and they forget that this is exactly what we want. The competition between these two companies only makes our PC experiences all the better. There will always be people bashing another company, and is will always be a waste of time.

[leecho7]

My very first build was an Athlon XP 2400. In fact, it's the same processor I'm using right now. I had this rig since 2002-ish.

I built a couple of socket 939 systems for people, and those run amazingly well in my opinion. Can't wait till I get enough money to upgrade my old rig.

I also built a couple of Intel's for my cousin's business and those run amazingly well too.

I personally would stay with AMD only because I'm more familiar with it than Intel. And usually AMD's are cheaper.

[DarkSynergy]

My first build too was an Athlon. I used an Athlon XP 1800+ and I couldn't have been happier. Built it with a Soyo KT333 Platinum mobo and a ATi 7500. Oh the times...