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

I've been using AMD for many computers ago. :P

I now have an Intel, but that is because it was offered! Hehe.

I prefer AMD. It's my choice processors.

BTW, this thread could be better with a pooling, so everyone could account the opinions more easily.

I have agree w/TS! I have had no issues w/Athlon at all. I agree that increasing memory on any pc system will help alleviate problems. So, I would buy the most memory my system could hold for speed alone. That's my thoughts from my experience. Hey, I'm sure they're both very good, maybe some of us prefer one type over the other for gaming vs. a different type of use. I think a poll would be cool. I will leave that up to the true experts in TNT.hehehe Best Regards To All!
~sunshine~