AMD vs Intel

[duc]

Is there really a better? Truthfully I think Intel last longer, but AMD seems to work better. I watched this one video from tomshardware.com where they showed what happens when you take the cooler/fan (something) off the chip, and on the intel's it just froze the game they were playing. Once they put it back on it worked fine. When they took it off the AMD's it actually started smoking and destroyed itself. I already have an AMD so I'm looking for advice on my next buy.

-duc

[ajames]

well, i'd say that AMD is better for games, and Intel is better for video editing.

[penagate]

Well usually you don't take the cooler off your CPU...

I'd say AMD offer the same speed for about half to two-thirds the price of the equivalent Intel processors.

Yeah, more break, but that's usually because people stuff them by installing the coolers wrongly (like putting them on sideways). They are more fragile than Intel's, but that's not really a factor once the CPU is installed and running.

Plus, AMD have created the new consumer 64-bit standard AMD64 ... the spec that Microsoft are using to make Windows... so Intel have to make their 64-bit processors AMD-compatible

[ajames]

at the moment 64-bit processors dont do anything extra.

[BodwadUK]

I prefer AMD as they are cheaper and they run cooler (Or at least they used to).

Pentiums are still good though as long as you avoid the Celerons

[Cander]

For servers I would personally think Intel might be better with HT and all that, but on desktops, you cant beat the value of AMD chips and can get away with using cheap cooling (stock fans usually work fine).

[Madboy]

I prefer AMD as they are cheaper and they run cooler (Or at least they used to).

Pentiums are still good though as long as you avoid the Celerons

I used to have a Intel Celeron 512Mhz

[Dreamlax]

at the moment 64-bit processors dont do anything extra.

Of course they do. Conventional 32-bit processors had to split 64-bit integers over multiple registers and 64-bit operations were very slow and latent. With the release of good, solid 64-bit architecture, software developers will be able to work efficiently with numbers over 4.2 billion.

Now that IPv6 is out and used widely, you cannot store a long version of an IP address in a single 32-bit integer. Solution? Pad it out and put it into a 64-bit one! Either that or go the char[6] way.

[BodwadUK]

But it has to simulate 32bit surely thus slowing down 32bit programs?

[mendhak]

Is there really a better? Truthfully I think Intel last longer, but AMD seems to work better. I watched this one video from tomshardware.com where they showed what happens when you take the cooler/fan (something) off the chip, and on the intel's it just froze the game they were playing. Once they put it back on it worked fine. When they took it off the AMD's it actually started smoking and destroyed itself. I already have an AMD so I'm looking for advice on my next buy.

-duc

That's definitely a factor to consider if you happen to be one of the millions of people out there who takes the fan off the processor while playing games.

[Dillinger4]

Id like to get a new amd 64 but at this point i can't see any advantages. Perhaps when i get cash for my voodoo ill opt for twin amd cpu's. I have no complaints about my p4 though. Hl2 and doom3 run pretty good.

[BodwadUK]

Dilenger looking at your sig you know roman numerals for 4 is IV not IIII

[Kasracer]

Id like to get a new amd 64 but at this point i can't see any advantages. Perhaps when i get cash for my voodoo ill opt for twin amd cpu's. I have no complaints about my p4 though. Hl2 and doom3 run pretty good.

64bit Windows and Linux. It's quite cool. Too bad I don't have one yet

[Dillinger4]

Posted by BodwadUK

Dilenger looking at your sig you know roman numerals for 4 is IV not IIII

Yeah i knew that but i didn't think that pent 3's which were labled III were really roman numerals. Seems intel threw them in the trash with the p4. Too bad though because in 2042 i could have changed my cpu specs in my sig to Intel PXXVII 500Ghz.

[Dreamlax]

Yeah i knew that but i didn't think that pent 3's which were labled III were really roman numerals. Seems intel threw them in the trash with the p4. Too bad though because in 2042 i could have changed my cpu specs in my sig to Intel PXXVII 500Ghz.

Either that, or your version of PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 500 GHz