Intel VS AMD A world of make-believe

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Fox5

Originally posted by: hans007
i would cut prices, which worked to get me to go back to intel which i did recently for the following 2 reasons

1.. i was able to get a new intel pentium D 820 on ebay for $190

and

2. i am doign this in a btx case which is about as quiet as quiet gets (without resorting to a very expensive cooling setup , i.e. $45 cnps 7700 or something like that).


yes i know ill get flamed, but evenwith cool and quiet and 3 low volted 7v zalman fans i could not get my athlon 64 as quiet as this, nor could i hope in a million years to have dual core for $200

It's funny, I have an athlon xp system with 3 panaflo fans, and the electric hum from my neopower power supply(which is supposed to be a quiet power supply) is louder than the 6 fans(3 + cpu + video + power supply) inside my case, and the electric hum is pretty damn quiet too.

yeah well i wasnt saying the athlon 64 was loud. it was just louder most likely due to having more fans. the power supply i was using was a enermax noisetaker 475 at the lowest setting.

for me the multitasking of dual core is far more important than the actual clock speed.

i suppose if i could get a single fan (a microBTX athlon64 board would work...) dual core say 1.8 ghz dual (lets call this athlon x2 3500 or something) and the cpu cost say $200 i'd probably have gotten that instead.