What Do You Like Most - AMD or Intel

Please, let me to know about your opinion for AMD and Intel.

Good Luck !

They keep switching back and forth with their speeds.
Intel is currently on top and AMD will come along again.

*BTW Hertz's is not the only thing you measure with a CPU.

My first computer had an AMD and I had a lot of grief with it (it was a Compaq). Since I've been getting computers with Intel, but I confess I'm not super savvy as to all the technicalities involved with the processor (that's why I'm here! ) .

About every six - eight months, one becomes the leader and then they switch back. This cycle continues on with "quality, power & prices" benefiting builders & consumers alike!

However, one thing I have observed is that AMD *needs* memory to operate properly. Without the proper memory, AMD seems to exhibit all of the signs of serious OS & hardware malfunctions. Once you throw memory at it...all of this goes away and things operate as they should.

I am AMD loyal. I have had Intels, and they worked, but they never seemed to be able to push the envelope. I got my first AMD a few years ago, an eMachine with an Athlon 2000+. That little CPU was/is a beast. Yes, it is still in service as my wife's computer/media rig.

I moved up to a 64 bit 3200+, and now my X2 4200+. I am still in socket 939, but I hope to move to AM3 after it is out.

AMD shines in gaming, but it can hold its own in other apps as well. Intel has a definite advantage in encoding, but that is something that is bot done by a lot of people.

The current race between Intel and AMD is a good thing. It is driving both companies to develop better chips, which gives us consumers better choices.

Intel for me , Q6600 in my system and it rocks !, not found a game or GFX render it cant play or show yet, love Halo, FEAR and CS3, PSP-X2 is as smooth as cream

Intel, for now: I like the ideas behind the newest 45nm stuff, & the fact it outperforms using less power (technically)... the Quad-Core should be out or near to it now, based on that tech!

IF I were to buy now, & was willing to swing it going "top dollar"? I'd go INTEL... for now!

... & like many of you had stated?

Until AMD comes along with a "BETTER deal..."

(Eventually AMD will, & INTEL will disassemble it & come up with an analog that has improvements (& yes, they BOTH do it, vice-a-versa, & I am sure of that statement))...

Heck - Most companies do to one another, all the time, & I've seen it, firsthand myself!

(In that they have buildings & engineering teams tearing up one another's stuff & analyzing it, to come up with diff. ways of doing the same thing, hopefully better, w/ out violating copyrights/patents etc.).

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To myself, though, for most of what I do?

It's not the CPU I am mostly concerned about (nice to have, but... heck, I don't WANT the most powerful CPU's, because then I have to worry about making code that depends on "too much power" to run acceptably on SLOWER systems (cpu-wise), as a coder)...

Myself, for my needs, for "power stuff"?

I only really need it in 2 places, for how I use a system, where "power/top power" counts:

1.) On disk, in writes (more than reads, due to DB work I have to do)

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2.) GPU (gaming makes me STILL do "upgrades" (as I love NVidia stuff, usually always a BIG boost, generation-to-nextgeneration)) ...

Costly though, getting 'sucked-into' the "upgrade-trap" & especially over time... I certainly did & in some ways, I regretted it.

APK

P.S.=> What I've noted, from messing with these machines @ the hardware level from 1991 onwards up to today? Bus speeds get saturated, & even IF/WHEN I get the "top dog" for that bus type vidcard-wise?? Well, "the infamous they" just 'change the rules' again, & intro. a NEW bus type!

E.G.-> I've seen it go from:

• ISA

• MCA

• EISA

• VLB

• PCI

• AGP

• PCI-Express

(There are 'variations thereof' on some of them too, diff. versions, with diff. 'burst rates' etc. too, & some 'overlapped' one another as well)...

Man - I spent SO much on vidcards over time & mainly because of the "upgrade trap" as I call it? I probably could have bought a cheaper car/winter rat extra one with that cash... OR, a better one than I have now as my main ride.

That's just some "food for thought" is all that is, not a put-down (if you're into that stuff nowadays is all, in upgrading every so often etc. on certain parts!)... apk