Intel or AMD?

[-{VC}- sWiTcH]

First of all a small warning:DO NOT FLAME EITHER COMPANY B/C THEY BOTH HAVE PROS AND CONS. Now that we got that out of the way, what is your choice? Id say intel just b/c my old amd sucked, but it was also 350mhz...

 

[Loki]

My brothers AMD pwns my P3 ;_;

 

[-{VC}- sWiTcH]

Yea and my 2.53 ghz p4 pwns u also lol

 

[GMan]

I say Intel right now because of the 800 FSB and that AMD's naming system (3000+ or whatever) isn't exactly working anymore because of the increased Bus sizes while AMD is just at 333mhz

 

[Scorcher2k]

AMD's new xp just went up in bus speed... The p4 is far surpassing the athlon xp now even in price which is what your only reason for buying an athlon should be. I was always an avid supporter of amd but after the athlonxp was just dissapointing. The dual athlon mps are only beat by a couple high powered xeons and the tbirds were faster than the first xps that came out. This really doesn't make much of a difference because we should be looking to the future (a month from now). The faster fsb and higher mhz is just them throwing more voltage threw. The market is going to start changing over to 64bit processors soon and amd just isn't there. The fact that there chip isn't going to be a true 64 bit processor is very dissapointing to me and I'm sure other supporters. Besides that there are many new technologies being worked on right now. A new type of processor that runs just as fast but doesn't need a heatsink is being worked on. The only reason we need a heatsink and fan now is because they upped the voltage so much to make them faster which is basically the same thing as overclocking. Crystal memory is a very cool thing that is being developed as well allthough thats a little off topic. Seeing how I'm starting to rant I'll stop now...

 

[X-iT_W0uN|)]

AMD's new cpu coming out soon is going to ownz all Intell AMD kicks j00's azz

 

[-{VC}- sWiTcH]

I know this is a bit off topic, but its quite interesting. I just heard this and it might be inaccurate, but supposedly compacted chicken feathers are like 50x faster then silicone lol.
Well anywayz back on topic: the 800mhz side busses do kick ass right now, and its sad when i bought mine the fastest was 533mhz... P4's multi threading (or hyper threading or sumthin like that) is kind of a dissapointment, it seems to slow it down unless u r running like 50 procesess and compiling 3 movies...

 

[Scorcher2k]

Like I said earlier... AMD's new "64bit processor" is an upset. Its built on a 32bit core so its not going to be nearly as fast as Intel's true 64 bit.

 

[DiebytheSword]

Uhg . . . you buy that Itanium crap? The AMD 64 bit proccessor is built that way. The Intel chip is many, many times more expensive. The Itanium is NOT backwards compatable with any 32 bit platform, (sorry boys, truth hurts) and the Clawhammer is. Intel quickly (5 months after announcing clawhammer) announces a second 64 bit platform that is backwards compatable, this sounds like they admitted that raping the business server community with a new intel only option would fail. In addition, Itanium is selling very poorly. Who will win? My money is on AMD this time around, if they survive a stint without motorola manufacturing chips for them. IBM takes over next, and then Intel will go toe to toe with AMD and a big blue brother

I like AMD's approach, if intel manufactured their processors like AMD, then they would have monster processors. Unfortunately, Intels answer has been deeper pockets (piplines), gimmicks (hyperthreading), and phantom clock cycles (go boot a P4 in Linux, and whatch that penguin laugh at the padded numbers).

Intels are better than AMD atm, but concider the deficit in transistors and clock frequency . . . AMD clearly has a cleaner core implementation.

 

[Scorcher2k]

Guess I was out of the loop longer than I thought. I didn't realize that the itanium came out lol. I've been so busy maintaining the server and working on outside life I haven't kept up. I always saw intel as costing about 2 to 3 times more for everything. Recently it has been worth it. The p4 benchmarks I've seen have screamed over the xps. I'm still envious of my friends athlon mps... I always saw amd's chip being backwards compatibility as a sacrifice. Yes, it will support the old stuff that business are currently running on but there not going to be as fast. I could be more than wrong seeing as how I haven't seen anything on this for like 4 or 5 months. My favorite processor of its time is still the athlon thunderbird... Oh, where the hell did amd come up with a name like clawhammer??? lol

 

[DiebytheSword]

Who knows, lol. They went from horses to cars to tools apparently.

 

[imported_phrack50]

Who knows, lol. They went from horses to cars to tools apparently.

LMAO @ Cucumba
Thoroughbread, Thunderbird, Hammer. That is funny!

Traditionally, I've stuck with AMD cause you get more bang for your buck.

 

[Scorcher2k]

I was with amd until until the xp was released. I turned to intel for the memory pipe of the p4 over the xp. dual channel ddr400 is nice....

 

[dudeman]

wait till teh AMD hammer is in the stores.. it own0rz p4!!
amd 4 life!

 

[Magmus]

AMD simply put OWNZ J00 ALL!

 

[VivaLaPineapple]

i got an amd and i like it better than the intel

 

[Viki@killer]

AMD and Intel...I will take Intel(on your side),but AMD xp is slightly better(traditional INTEL man),but my intel 2.8 P4 workin damn hell on 512 MB ram

The ruler of planet...hmm,don't know...

 

[imported_Angry_Gohan]

amd rox

its good :]

 

[DiebytheSword]

I was with amd until until the xp was released. I turned to intel for the memory pipe of the p4 over the xp. dual channel ddr400 is nice....

DDR 400 dual channel is on AMD now too (at the very minimum, you can have it on Nforce2, I should know I have one ) . . . Intel lost the memory pipe advantage when it switched from RDRAM.

 

[Tassadar]

If I had to choose between a Athlon XP 3000 Barton or a P4 3.02 GHz I'd probably go with the AMD. It may sound stupid, but I've always believed that AMD is the faster, all-around brand. My view is the P4 is geared more towards gaming(and is probably faster than AMD in that area), so on heavy multitasking it dosnt work as well as AMD does. Since i'm a frequent multitasking gamer, I choose AMD.