Intel/AMD and nVidia/ATI

AMD Athlon X2 & ATI HD 4670

Gazzasore said:

I had endless problems with intel based boards so I changed to AMD & ATI & Touch wood no problems what so ever

Same problem from me too. I hate intel pc(s)

I have three pc's with AMD cpu which are running good from several years. I never faced major problems then virus attacks My own pc is AMD/nvidia so i have voted for...

I have another AMD pc with ati gpu chip but that isn't good. Especially games which runs worst then my pc ( nvidia ).

Best Regards

Konceptz804 said:

Intel / Nvidia

I do a lot of movie encoding and AMD simply has not competed with intel since the Core 2 launch.

I actually find this as a surprise because I work heavily with video and find that the phenom II x4 is unmatched at least for what I have done.

I seem to get a really impressive frame rate encoding video with the newer multi-core AMD chips.

But most of the difference probably comes from more than just the processor you have installed. Your board can really make a difference in performance when working on something so intensive on the system.

Something else I wanted to note from experience with Intel systems.

I had a celeron 2.7Ghz back on socket 478a and I always had heat issues with that particular processor. I ran that CPU on an Intel motherboard with 2Gb of Kingston memory copper cooled. I ended up buying a really extreme cooler for the processor just to keep the heat within a reasonable range under normal usage.

I still to this day do not understand why I had all the heat issues with that system because it should have ran ice cold with all of the cooling I had in the machine. But it didn't it ran really hot which was weird and frustrating the entire time I had the system.