AMD or Intel

[Pigabuff]

No-ones done this one yet, so I will :D


which you you think is better, for general purposes, quality, performance, and overclockablility ;)

AMD or Intel..... which is it to be!

[Spoo]

I went with AMD on price. I would choose Intel for performance if I could afford it.

[Pigabuff]

If I were to buy one, I would go AMD. You know why, because of the fabulous over-clockablility.

My friend has a 2400 XP (I think, it's something likr that anyway), and he's been able to overclock it from 2.2 to 3 GHz... cool or what.

Mine you though his new motherboard helped, a bit ;)

[Mystical Parrot]

i would also go amd because they're cheap and easy to overclock. yes they get hot but get yerself a lot of fans and thats not an issue :P

[Stringy Pete]

Intel.

AMD made a big song and dance about the 64.
Intel, not very phased by this turn of events got a Xeon processor, and stuck a sticker on it that read:
"Pentium 4 Extreme"

And it pwned.

[Rogue]

AMD. The new pentium chips are sort of spy-wareish (or so i have heard)

[Stringy Pete]

Spyware? On a processor? Eh?

(that makes lil or no sense)

[Rogue]

my dad is a computer programmer and says intel is nosy

http://www.cdt.org/press/022699press.shtml

Intel, the world's dominant chipmaker, is planning to release its new Pentium III chip on Sunday with an identifying serial number (PSN) that could be used to track computers — and computer users — across the Internet.

[Stringy Pete]

Heh, Windows does that anyway, don't need a serial number on a peice of hardware. You could probably move your computer 3 feet across a room and Bill Gates would know about it.

[HiTmAN]

Microsoft are moving away from Intel now, and taking up the AMD instruction set, so I would say that in the future, AMD will be a lot more popular due to an endorsement from Microsoft.

If you think about it, on the TV, do you ever see an advertisment with the AMD brand on it somewhere?

All I see is the "Ding! Dum dum dum dum!" Intel video clip. Hopefully this will change, as AMDs are a lot more affordable.

[wyrd_fish]

Originally posted by Spooneh
I went with AMD on price. I would choose Intel for performance if I could afford it.

quoted for truth :D

my dads soon to have a 3gb p4... when prescotts push p4 peices down...

[Lewiji]

Intel-I love hyperthreading. It's great, if a little buggy.

The whole spyware thing is untrue-they have a tracking number on the processor so that if something goes wrong in your PC they can track the number of it and make sure none of the other 'batch' of processors are faulty. It's like a black box in a plane.

[Dr-Electro]

As an Educational IT guy, Intel is perfect for my purposes. Standardization and reliability count more than any other factors. I can always get the support I need on Intel products, particularly on the newest computers on campus. They are all Dell and Dell has excellent support for me.

I have to support more than 1200 computers on this one campus. the rest of the techies in the district have under 1000. I need everything to be as standardized as I can make it. It makes my life much easier.

Before I started working here, everything was a mess. No two computers on campus were alike. Even in the labs which had 25 computers installed at the same time, nothing was the same from one computer to the next.

The bids were given preferentially to local "box makers" rather than brand-name manufacturers. HTese yo-hos would put whatever piece of crap they had lying around in 25 boxes that only looked alike on the outside. Try figuring out what goes wrong in a situation like that! I'm lucky to have any hair left at all.

I had Hell. I was totally overwhelmed. After five years of continuous effort I have succeeded in weeding out all the oddball crap. I have shipped hundreds of whacko systems off to auction. We have written grants and written grants and written grants and written grants until we have replaced all the computers we are able to replace within the law. WE have found a couple of "angels" who have given us new computers, not replacements, under their own grants. I am not done with my crusades and projects yet. There is more still to do to make the whole campus resemble a 21st century school. As Mick Foley says, "Fight on!"

Of course, my choice has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that one of my old high school girlfriends is an Intel chip designer. No not one thing at all.:D ;) (only the last paragraph is a joke, the rest is serious)

[Tofufi]

I have had two pc's (my only two other than an old amstrad) and both powered by AMD units. Im writing this on an Amd unit. and yet I find them crap, to be honest we only bought it cos it was cheap, but it is running 60% CPU load when "idling" and the whole lot is slow to do anything. next time i would go for pentium as they seem a load more reliable and faster too.