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Interesting article on Intel vs AMD processors

AMD for gaming - Intel for office apps.

Dual-Core wise, AMD is ahead, but Intel will no doubt catch up.

To be honest, the more AMD inclined would do well to avoid Dual-Core until the new Socket M2 variants arrive sometime this year. Otherwise you'll be paying for something that goes out of date quite quickly.

In addition, AMD CPU’s will drop in price twice before February’s end; the server line saw cuts being introduced yesterday and consumer chips will follow next month.
 
It's quite a long time ago now since I built my dual Opteron box (do people buy Xeons if they can help it ?). Then the new AMD 64-bit chips were just considered interesting and there wasn't a huge hullabaloo about them. Now anybody looking for the best price/performance, as highlighted by CNET, is going to be looking for AMD. It's great to see an underdog like AMD come out with a winning product against the Goliath that is Intel (who _currently_ appear to be taking a bit of a spanking - link ).


P.S. Posted from an AMD 64 3000+ powered laptop ...

:)
 
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I haven't used an Intel processor since the original Pentium & the rumours that Intel were leaning on the motherboard manufacturers not to produce AMD based boards.

To be fair to AMD their processors have been interesting to a lot of people well before the 64 bit versions, especially in the residential market.

pcblues
 
There seems to be little point for Intel now at all. Other than serverside, Intels are priced too high by far, in performance comparison.

People say intels are more useful for office use, but office use is generally low powered now anyway. Which makes it better to get an AMD all round.
 
From what I have been reading in recent weeks Intel are basically admiting that they wont be able to catch up with AMD's duel core chips until 2010-2012 !! What they currently have are too slow, run far too hot and cant share memory properly. I expect to see AMD's market share completely outstrip Intel in the next few years, a report I read last week says that in the US there were more AMD based PC's shipped than Intel ones last year. Even the prats in grey suits cant ignore the problems with Intels product line for much longer. I do wonder if Dell are the only people buying Intel chips any longer.
 
Having been building PCs for about 12years now, I have been and avid AMD fan over Intel, but recent events are making me doubt AMD's future if they don't get better support from motherboard manufacturers.

I have recently experienced a number of problems with both ATI & Nvidia chipsets, and these are not on cheap boards. All my kit is good stuff, and powered by a 580w (true) Hiper Type-R PSU.

My DFI NF4 LanPrty Ultra-D started killing quality RAM, 2 lots of 1Gb Corsair PC4400c25, 1 of 1Gb Crucial Ballistix PC4000 & now 2Gb of Geil PC3200.

The board was tested as not faulty, yet all the above tested faulty in any board I tried it in, more than a coincedence IMHO. The other fault with NF4 is that a lot of the chipsets cannot do RAID, something which I had planned on using later on, and my board as well a friends plus an NF4 based MSI board also showed the exact same problem (probably also occurs on Intel NF4 boards too).

After reading several excellent reviews I bought an Asus A8R-MVP (ATI R480 chipset) to get away from the Nvidia and possibly take advantage of the Crossfire (ATI SLI) feature for my x850XTPE at a later date. I have tested every single component of my PC in another to verify all is ok, and now I'm starting to get strange crashes/reboots, and I'm not alone. It appears Asus have skimped on the power regulation with this board and lots are causing crashes or failing totally and Asus don't seem to care (just have a read of their forums on the Asus site), now how crap is that from the World's biggest mbd manufacturer? :mad:

Now with Nvidia buying out ULi/ALi a few weeks back, that really only leaves VIA to sort things out, and I'm sure most know what their track record is like.

Not looking too good is it?

AMD have a superb product which is being wasted by crappy chipsets/motherboards, and Intel have slower, power consuming & overpriced counterparts, but boy am I tempted just to get a decent bit of reliability. :shrug:
 
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Over the years I have had a number of component and PC failures and nearly all of them were caused by duff PSU's or mobo regulators and in one case a floppy disk motor going short circuit and taking the whole board out.
Maybe your Hiper Type "R" is glitching, this happened with a psu I had, it only did it once every 8-10 months but it blew the CPU everytime and then tested 100% OK afterwards;after every other component had been changed under warrenty Evesham Micro gave up, so when it blew again and they wouldnt touch it I changed the PSU and lo!!! 4 years later the damn thing is still going
 
It's not the PSU either, I forgot to mention that I'd swapped it out with another 2 just to be sure, and these are very highly rated PSU's ;)

The one big issue I'm having with the Asus A8R-MVP is it's lack of ability to move the IRQ settings about whether in the BIOS, Windows XP as a Standard or ACPI PC, with critical issues such as..
USB sharing with video card
USB sharing with HD controller
USB sharing with PCI (and therefore my SB Audigy 2)

Nothing I do will let me move them around, and I'm getting severe choppiness and sound glitching, this is all now a known problem :shrug:

Link to Asus motherboard forums (just select the A8R-MVP from the drop-down menu).
 
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