AMD or Intel

[Windows i7 920]

So which company do you personally feel has the best processors? I used to be an AMD fan until Intel came around with the Core i7 900 series.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Intel has the speed edge buy a small degree, AMD has the bang for the buck buy a huge degree! Hands down AMD unless your business requires the maximum power to compete and even then as fast as things get out paced the AMD still makes a strong case......in my opinion!

 

[pparks1]

Intel right now. And I don't think that AMD is necessarily best bang for the buck. At the highest level Intel chip..it's expensive. but a Core i5-650 competes with an AMD-1090T 6 core and the Intel is actually cheaper.

 

[bigmck]

So which company do you personally feel has the best processors? I used to be an AMD fan until Intel came around with the Core i7 900 series.

Are you water cooled now? :roflmao:

 

[Windows i7 920]

So which company do you personally feel has the best processors? I used to be an AMD fan until Intel came around with the Core i7 900 series.

Are you water cooled now? :roflmao:

Nope. All air, and my temps have been staying below 40 C actually. Right now my CPU is 29 C. This is the Core i7 920 without overclock and it has a thermaltake V1 cooling kit on it. I messed around a little bit with overclocking it, and even at 4.2 GHz my temps were well within the safe zone, but I noticed no increase in performance. This leads me to believe that my graphics card is the bottleneck.

 

[MattRainier]

AMD guy, even though I have an Intel in my current box. I'm sorry, but a six-core processor for ~$250? Versus ~$1000 for a comparable Intel? 0.o I think I know where my money's going.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Exactly !

 

[Skulblaka]

Intel i7 980x

No more to be said...

 

[pparks1]

AMD guy, even though I have an Intel in my current box. I'm sorry, but a six-core processor for ~$250? Versus ~$1000 for a comparable Intel? 0.o I think I know where my money's going.

You miss the point.

While the AMD Six core 1090T is $260
Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX


.....a comparable performing chip from Intel is the Core i5-760 and it runs $208
Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX


Just because the Intel is only a quad core doesn't necessarily mean that it's not on par with the AMD.

 

[legend86]

So which company do you personally feel has the best processors? I used to be an AMD fan until Intel came around with the Core i7 900 series.

Are you water cooled now? :roflmao:

Nope. All air, and my temps have been staying below 40 C actually. Right now my CPU is 29 C. This is the Core i7 920 without overclock and it has a thermaltake V1 cooling kit on it. I messed around a little bit with overclocking it, and even at 4.2 GHz my temps were well within the safe zone, but I noticed no increase in performance. This leads me to believe that my graphics card is the bottleneck.

Hahaha. You missed the joke completely.

Anways, I'd get an Intel if they weren't so pricey. But I love my AMD Quad-Core 965. Gives me more than enough speed for the cost.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

It's funny how much of a division this topic can create it's on par with politics...I feel..."I feel" we all benefit by having a choice to push the competitive spirit and technologies. AMD is good and Intel is good, I'm a AMD man and you may be an Intel person. It's all good as long as they both push the envelope ! Affordable speed and reliability it's amazing how far we've come in such a short time and the future is going to be staggering....can't wait !

 

[spinifex]

Everything has it's own fan club.

AMD vs Intel
PC vs Mac
Holden vs Ford (in australia at least)

For me it's
Intel
PC
Ford

 

[Barman58]

The important thing IMO is not who is best between Intel and AMD but that there are both Intel and AMD.

The competition between the two is what drives them both to improve their product which benefits us all

 

[LiquidSnak]

Having used both over the years, price point still draws me to AMD.

 

[DirtyElf]

i just built my rig and didnt notice any real price savings with AMD... for now im an intel guy

 

[LiquidSnak]

Where are you shopping? I could use a $250 six core intel processor

 

[MattRainier]

Where are you shopping? I could use a $250 six core intel processor

It was a $250 AMD Phenom II.

 

[LiquidSnak]

Oh, I know, haha, I was talking to DirtyElf. In the mean time, I am very pleased with my recent processor purchase of the Athlon II X3 Rana

 

[Trucidation]

Got burned once with a bad Cyrix (a bargain buy which I regretted) and underwhelmed by a mediocre AMD (admittedly my fault for not doing proper research). Nothing but Intel for me now. After all it's my own money I'm spending, I don't want to second-guess myself later. Not to say I hadn't built my share of Intel-based rigs I ended up not liking (hello P4 Prescott, perpetually >60C) but I like the ability to say "no, the CPU isn't the bottleneck here".

 

[LiquidSnak]

Well said