AMD or Intel? 26 members have voted

[Dirk]

I personally chose intel because at the time the amd chips were slower. With intel you also have a larger range of mobos to choose from. I love my q9450 but i know people who use amd and are quite happy. Buy a system that fits your needs and budget and it really does not matter what brand name is on the cpu.

[trakaill]

there is so much bullshit in this thread... not even funny

 

put comparable CPUs on the bench Intel will alway kick AMDs ass... but yeah its slightly more expensive BUT still intel performs better and bang for buck i5 750

[PotshotPolka]

All depends on budget and overclocking. Period.

[Dirk]

if money is no issue go with intel no question. an i7 extreme will run rings around anything amd.

[Coffee Crisp]

if money is no issue go with intel no question. an i7 extreme will run rings around anything amd.

 

Milky Way Sized Rings.

[Dirk]

Milky Way Sized Rings.

 

so true 6 cores at 3.33GHz is totally insane.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Well, I use AMD for the simple reason that for the amount of money that I spend on a processor I get more bang for my buck from AMD. But if money wasn't an issue, then intel all the way. Though in defense of AMD their top of the line chips cost ~$300, whereas intel's top of the line chips are over $1000.

[Jager]

each company has had their high points and their low points. from the old AMD barton 2500 cores that oced an extra 1.5ghz on non exotic cooling (water or big air) to the opteron 146 socket 939's which were server class 940 chips with a single pin removed which were even faster, AMD has had periods of wiping the floor with intel.

 

Intel, since stepping away from the p4 architecture and redesigning the pentium 3 to be the core2duo has become the leader as far as top speeds or scores, but to say AMD is being run rings around is stupid. while intel does hold the current market for consumer usage, AMD has retained a large portion of its server /corporate share and has undercut intel so that it becomes a price versus performance battle. AMD also picked up ATI, and moved to the 45 then 32nm processes before intel, so they dealt with the teething problems of not as many binned cores at the start that intel is somewhat finally getting out of now (thats why so many x4's were made into x3's they werent 100% up to amd's bin standard for the x4)

 

the new push is to put a gpu onto the cpu die (or next to it under the same IHS) which will offload floating point arithmetic from the cpu to the gpu, which is much better at doing such work. Since AMD has ATI they are already grabbing a leg up in the lower heat/wattage chips to play with in their "fusion" system.

 

 

Intel has its own graphics chips under development and even out now as well, but they are no where near ATI's offerings, so another market shift may hit soon as to who is top dog of the cpu world for a product cycle.

 

 

Lastly AMD has done the one thing I wish intel would do, they have made a series of motherboards that support older chips so if you have a socket am2, you can buy a motherboard that supports that and am3 and save money when you upgrade. while I use intel ATM, i do despise having to pay for the same exact features on my current motherboard to upgrade.

 

If you are playing games a solid dual core processor from either side will see you through. if you have specific needs then look to the cpu's that will help fit that best (vid editing, multithreaded pshop etc, 6 core amd is the way to go)

 

to simply say one is better then the other is asinine, and while synthetic benchmarks say oh this processor is indeed better then that, a majority of the top performers cannot be differentiated in a gaming environment, which is what most of you are looking at.

 

atm if you want top performance a i5 760 is the way to budget go. an i7 820 or w/e it is is the better "budget" 1156 chip.

 

AMD has the phenoms and they are certainly nothing to turn down.

 

I run a c2quad 6600 on a g31 board. Overclocked and watercooled and i have little reason to upgrade anything at this point except maybe my motherboard to push the oc higher (mines wearing out) and a newer vid card (4890 atm) if i want to have bleeding edge gaming tech.

[Itch]

This thread is just an excuse for fanboys to flex their epeen's with the exception of a few responses that are able to see advantages to both sides of the debate.

 

There are and always will be various reasons to go with one over the other and to each person/need it will vary.

[Lordcrazy]

one thing though, in a couple of month, intell is releasing a new platform, which will majorly drop the price on everything.

 

What's this new platform I haven't heard of this yet...

I prefer Intel, why I'm not too sure...