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AMD or INTEL?

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Alaa

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According to ur USE which one is better? AMD or INTEL? (especially the FX55 and P4EE 3.73) did u have any conflicts?
 
The AMD FX-55 is snappier in about everything than the Intel. 😉
Though in video encoding and multi-threaded applications, the Intel is faster.
 
Never used either of those procs, too expensive for me. But for my use (light desktop work including surfing, chatting, music and video playing, video-editing and heavy work almost exclusively gaming) AMD procs are by far the better buy. I recommend Intel only for a system used at least 50% of the time for media work. In almost everything else AMD wins, but in some media apps it's just outrageously in Intel's favor.
 
go to Synthetic and see the benchmarks
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Oh, you mean the benchmarks that are 'based' on real world programs yet hardly ever model real world situations. Synthetic benchmarks do nothing more than let you tailor your tests to get the results you want.

Considering you are pointing to Intel's Hardware (I mean Tom's) tells me that...

1. You probably have no clue about Tom's history or...

2. Probably have no clue about the current state of the CPU industry.


To the original poster. Take note of what the great majority here said. The only time Intel can win is if you are an insane multitasker (in which case just get a dual core Opteron) or you expect to run only synthetic benchmarks on it.
 
You're on a forum filled with reasonable knowledgeable tech-oriented people. No one in their mind is going to recommend an Intel right now for the following reasons.

Intel CPUs do not perform nearly as well as AMD, eat more power, produce more heat, and are more expensive (in terms of a price-performance ratio). An Athlon64 3500+ (the best price-performance value in the AMD line) destroys even the EE edition processors in all benchmarks (except, of course, the ever touted video encoding). If you REALLY want to encode divx movies all day, buy an Intel. If you can afford a water block, or you live in antarctica and don't want to pay for heating😉

Otherwise, AMD has definitely won this round, and certainly look to have the upper hand in terms of the next (read: dual core) generation as well. In addition, if you choose to buy a dual core processor down the road, you won't need to replace your existing s939 motherboard to do it 🙂

So buy AMD, for now.
 
i dont know y everyone recommending intel for encoding while the difference between intel and amd in encoding is up to 20 seconds!
 
The funniest thing is when newbies come in & ask which one...but when you tell them AMD, they are like...but what about this or that, almost as if they basically already have their mind made up about Intel being better.

The truth hurts though 😉

AMD > Intel right now, & especially when dual-core hits 🙂
 
Alaa, It depends on the program and the size of the file. Some programs I've seen Intel bench over 50% faster than A64 single cores. (Though A64 dual cores seem to be in the lead now, but at a high price).
 
AMD, specially for the great upgrade path to dualcores offered by the socket 939 plataform. And Alaa synthetic test are meaningless, since they don't show ral life performance, at least if you use your PC to run synthetic benchmarks all day, which is useless.
 
Originally posted by: hippotautamus
You're on a forum filled with reasonable knowledgeable tech-oriented people. No one in their mind is going to recommend an Intel right now for the following reasons.

Intel CPUs do not perform nearly as well as AMD, eat more power, produce more heat, and are more expensive (in terms of a price-performance ratio). An Athlon64 3500+ (the best price-performance value in the AMD line) destroys even the EE edition processors in all benchmarks (except, of course, the ever touted video encoding). If you REALLY want to encode divx movies all day, buy an Intel. If you can afford a water block, or you live in antarctica and don't want to pay for heating😉

Otherwise, AMD has definitely won this round, and certainly look to have the upper hand in terms of the next (read: dual core) generation as well. In addition, if you choose to buy a dual core processor down the road, you won't need to replace your existing s939 motherboard to do it 🙂

So buy AMD, for now.
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I agree. Any solution from AMD will leave you pleased; any Intel solution will possibly not.
 
ok thnx am goin 4 Amd..i was goin to do this long time but someone told me tht Intel is better and tht..i knew AMD was better from reviews but i just wanted to know from ppl who use it..anyway thnx
 
Why are people fooled by Intel's advertising? If I had two options for a particular purchase,
I wouldn't make my decision based on the Blue Man Group's endorsement. Whether one is better at single threaded 3D rendering apps or multi-threaded video apps, you will get more processing power for your money if you purchase an Athlon. As a timeline reminder, Intel's thermal issues continue to grow and force them to lower clock speeds for newer products while AMD has managed to fit two 64-bit cores onto one chip w/out sacrificing anything in the way of core speed. In addition to this, almost every skt939 mobo used today will be able to support the new dual-core Athlons with a BIOS flash. On Intel's end, only the nForce4 SLI Intel edition or 945/955 series chipsets will support the revised LGA775 standard. AMD has announced that they intend to use 939 as their primary platform into 2006. What more do you need? This thread should be locked.
 
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