amd or intel?

amd or intel?

  • amd!!!

    Votes: 13 76.5%

  • intel

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Total voters
    17
amd 64bit system hands down unless you do major OC but yeah
 
ya im trying to talk seth into a amd! +amd's overcloks nice
i just oced my 2800+ by 50% and its nice and cool under 30c
 
Isn't it a longstanding opinion that AMD is better for gaming and Intel is better for work applications (CAD, spreadsheets, etc)?
 
Only reason why i'm sticking with intel is cause of the HT/ Dual core cpus. I do a ton of multitasking. That and allows me to run 2 major processes at once. Such as have aoe2 running in background hosting while I play cs. I realize there is the X2 AMD series that are higher clocks. If i'm gonna pay over $400 for a X2, I'll go a dual core with HT for 4 threads first.
 
I realize there is the X2 AMD series that are higher clocks. If i'm gonna pay over $400 for a X2, I'll go a dual core with HT for 4 threads first.
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Amd x2 chips have "HyperTransport" or something like that, so they still claim 4 threads. The way I see it is they haven't really stepped out of Intels shadow. They come out with exactly what intel does a few months later. Then they put out all this advertizing about how they are actually faster than Intel's chips via thier own clocking meathod. They are good at hyping up thier customers, but I work on both, and haven't been really impressed.

For practical purposes I see Amd chips to be a little more stable and smooth, while Pentium is going to give you the slightly faster speeds.

If I have the money I would go Intel, but bieng a more economic consumer, I would probably go AMD.

unfortunatly with HT it's not truly 4 threads.
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its true, but HT is pretty darn close
 
actially no they don't claim 4 threads. HT for AMD is hypertransport which is a high-spped interconnect between the individual cpu's(in a multi cpu environment) or between the cpu and main memory or between the cpuand the south bridge. It is much faster in terms of bandwidth and speed than the lower capability PCI or pci-x. PCI-e is good but not designed to be the interconnect between the cpu and other areas directly.

Intel's HT gets you maybe 20% max in highly optimized situations. That means 80% of a truly multi-threaded cpu is not there..it's nowhere near close..it's not even on the radar..
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dang, I was wrong. I did some research and your right. Stupid intel rep told me wrong...
Anyway I'm still sticking to AMD little smoother Intel little faster because thats what I observe. and that would still make sense of Hyperthreading and Hypertransport.
 
I saw somewhere, in 1 of the gamespy emails under the geek stuff, that intel is messing around with the idea of dual cpu's on the same pin package. True dual cpu, not any dual core or anything, and of course each cpu is dual core and HT on the pin package, but it might have been a rumor.
 
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