is this true about AMD processor

[Hossam]

i heard that AMD cpu after several years his performance & quality is decrease !!!!!

this if we compared the AMD cpu & Intel cpu & test it after several yrs

 

[Duvie]

what do you base this crap on??? Amd k6-2's and 3's?? cause I don't think the thunderbirds and xps are new enough to come to any sort of conclusions....

I can say that until recent p4 northwoods it was far more likely that around these pats an amd would be overclocked and thus any overclocked item will shorten the lifespan of the product....this is a given....

Look at intels best ocing chip of the past the celeron...I have heard of many whose chips have just started dieing after 3-4 years of ocing...my amd k6-2 400@500 still chugging along as a work computer since may of 1999....

you run chips withing specs and intel or amd those chips are likely to run longer then your usefullness from them...

 

[MrDudeMan]

yeah i dont think amd or intel has much to do with it, besides the fact that amds run a little hotter, but in the long run that doesnt make much of a difference, if any, regarding the lifespan

like duvie said, amds are overclocked more which leads to a shortened lifespan

well put duvie

 

[vicwang]

Whoah, hold on a sec here.... I think it's important here to clarify what we're talking about when we say "AMD's are overclocked more". AMD chip OWNERS are more likely to overclock their CPU's for several reasons, one of which is the high heat-tolerance of Athlon CPU's. Another is the fact that you can unlock the multiplier of AMD chips, unlike recent Intels, which means a lot more versatility when overclocking AMD's.

But there's nothing forcing anyone to overclock their Athlons... and it's not as if AMD themselves is doing any kind of overclocking. They're just making it easier for people to overclock the chips if they choose to do so.

As for Hossam's original question, he wasn't necessarily talking about the lifespan of AMD vs Intel chips, he was talking about "performance & quality" over time. Not sure what he means by "quality", but the idea that PERFORMANCE of a CPU could actually decrease over time is pretty absurd. The performance of any Windows PC can degrade over time due to OS issues (i.e. "Windows Bloat") but the components inside are not going to degrade over time performance-wise.

 

[JRO]

I have a celeron 300A @464mhz that has been in about 4 different systems and is still running strong 4 years later. I have seen similar results with overclocked AMD chips, By the time your processor wears out it would be so outdated, it will be nearly useless. Unless of course you are talking about computers used in businesses that may keep the same machines for 10 years or so.