AMD or Intel?

[ICOM]

Only reason intel is more popular cause it gets ad. better.

[ThePatriot]

Well, not only that, but i would say at least 75% of America is computer uneducated, they buy brand name computers(Dell, compaq etc...) and those all have deals going with Intel. Most people never even use AMD products, they use a pentium or a celeron and figure it works so why try something new, plus to use an AMD most likely they would have to built it themselves or find a no name computer company to put it together for them. Most people dont want to risk that and stick with the big names.

[Tbone]

I run an XP 1700 and it rocks

[Mossman]

I've got a place in my heart for AMD.....But I think Intel is winning the race right now. The P4 1.6a chip with 512kb cache for 120 bucks is a frikken steal, they generally get to 1.9gigs or so. Also i think the new P4 mobos are more refined.

HOWEVER...When the hammer's come out (pretty soon i believe, but i'm not really up at tech stuff at the moment)
anyhow, when the hammers come out its gunna be all over! I think they tested a 700ish mhz clawhammer or one of the hammers against some 1.8ghz CPU's and they were about even, and the hammers are starting at 1.5ghz or so...

LOL, what a garble of insubstantial facts...lemme go study up

[clanger]

goto pricewatch.com and compare the prices of both processors and motherboards. Then open up your wallet and compare that to how much you have in there. If your willing to shell out extra money for a slight( and i mean slight benefit) then buy the northwood processors that intel makes. Otherwise buy an Amd, I recommend the duron because you can get a 1+ghz for under 60 bucks I believe!

[paintbattler]

is there any difference between AMD and Intel? i dont think there is much of one

[ThePatriot]

Those words you just spoke, where I come from, those words are considered heresy. YES there is a difference between the two, considering the Athlon 1.73 ghz beat out the 2.4 ghz @ 400 FSB in almost every test, however the new stupid 2.53ghz at 533 FSB beat out the Athlon, finally So yes, i would say there is a difference.

[zads27]

http://www.anandtech.com

I used to live here, but have fallen off the ball in recent months.

[mykroft]

Remember that while Intel's FSB is 533MHz, it's not as wide as AMD's FSB at 333MHz, so effective speed is about the same, or slightly biased to AMD on low-end chipsets,as Intels high-end, multibank chipsets are stupid fast.

Personally, on the Desktop, AMD is king, it owns, bang for buck wise. For music creation, go Intel or Mac, for Multimedia PowerMac G4 is king.

Server side, go Intel, for the much more stable chipsets, if you want real stability, Sun or Apple XServe is the way to go, x86 just will never be there, do to design kludges necessary to keep a 21 year old architecture running.