AMD or INTEL

[BeoR]

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I went for AMD cos i wanted to learn the ways of OC masters Crashburn and BeoR.

ngek! the force is strong in you young padawan... hehehe

PRICE: is no object if you are in pursuit of quality & performace. nothing nice comes cheap. as they say, price is the only guarantee for quality.

I beg to disagree... there are a lot of cheap stuff out there that outmatch their more expensive counterparts...

PERFORMANCE: is a combination of stability & speed which obviously AMD doesn't have. stability is far more important than speed, for me at least & benchmarks are mum on stability. That is why it has to be Performance Rating over Clock Speed.

Obviously you never had a hands on experience on both systems... AMD is as stable as Intel... the same way Intel can be as unstable as AMD...

HEAT MANAGEMENT: all PC/electronic experts unanimously agree that heat management is everything in this ballgame. Speed is absolutely nothing without Control as the Porsche saying goes.

As I have stated on some other post, the only reason why Intel seems cooler than an AMD processor is its Thermal Throttling and HUGE HSF... disable it and you'll see that it is as hot or hotter than a comparable AMD processor...

Low Price & High Performance? It doesn't add up. That's why there are Corollas & Camrys or Sentras & Infinitis.

in fact it does... a 25k Athlon System can perform at par or even outperform a 35k P4 system...

It is a fact that majority mainframes & servers across the globe undeniably still banks on Intel for performance & stability maybe not on speed but that's negligible because it is the former features that counts most.

mainframes don't use Intel Processors while some Server do... but it is a myth that most mission critical servers run on Intel Processors... maybe you mean workgroup servers...

Why do you think AMD is agressively marketing their processors on the stand-alone or SoHo level & not on the big game? It's because large company consumers spend separately on research & development in every aspect of the hardware they are going to humongously invest on and obviously Intel is still the processor of choice for these big players.

PEACE!!!

because they know that their current systems cannot compete at that market yet... why spend on a market that you cannot get into yet? wait for the Opteron.. let's see what Intel will offer to beat it...

Overclocking your proc. doesnt really give the real performance of that cpu (ex. 1.8ghz OC to 2.4ghz) am i right?

you're right!

it does... and surpasses it depending on how you overclock your system...

PEACE!!! :mrgreen:

[jordinho]

ehehehhe mastah beor never fails to amaze meh /me hail!

[LytSlpr]

After all that has been said, I truly wait for the day that AMD will beat Intel in terms of quantity revenues coz that's solid proof of consumer's preference. Maybe by then just maybe, I will become a convert myself. So far, all the reports that AMD has surpassed Intel's sales in a given time is pure hearsay.

[BeoR]

After all that has been said, I truly wait for the day that AMD will beat Intel in terms of quantity revenues coz that's solid proof of consumer's preference. Maybe by then just maybe, I will become a convert myself. So far, all the reports that AMD has surpassed Intel's sales in a given time is pure hearsay.

it's gonna take a long time before any competitor can surpass Intel's unit sales... there has never been any claims by AMD that they sold more units than Intel (where did you get this "hearsay", I'm interested). however, it is a FACT that AMD's market has constantly grown and eating up Intel's share of the pie since the birth of the Athlon.

[revnetx]

For me Intel is good

[zi0n]

I have both intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon XP, all i can say is master BeoR is right.. AMD is as stable as Intel... the same way Intel can be as unstable as AMD... But with a P30K AMD system and a P30K Pentium system? it's like comparing a DSL line over dial-up connection. hehehehe! :mrgreen:

[jjjoelll]

I also have both system and these two perform so well... If you're an AMD fan and not satisfied get INTEL (vice versa)... and be happy...

[jojitd]

nothing compares to rambus + P4 combination.

[coolguy]

There is.... My PC3500 + Barton!

[jjjoelll]

it hasn't been manufactured yet, coolguy...