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The Big Question! AMD or Intell

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undercover

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I am buying (putting together) a new system. Toms hardware makes the P4 look good now, while putting donw the mobo's out for the Athlon/T-Bird. I play counter-Strike/UT/Quake/ Halo in the future, I use Fireworks/Dreamweaver, and other web design software allot. Not to mention IE all day.

Now, I can afford the following: I already have 256 PC133 Crucial and other stuff ...

AMD Athlon (With T-Bird memory stuff?) and a MSI for $330

PIII 800 on an Asus board for like $400

For what I do, what CPU would you get? Not looking at cost, but within reason.

Annoyed ......
 
I have an Intel P3 and love it but how can you not look at cost. If I were building a system now I would have to turn traitor and go AMD
 
Based on the numerous different benchmarks, Intel's chips seem to still do better when it comes to shoving data around. But AMD seems to do better when it comes to multimedia stuff (FPU-based stuff). I'd say go for a T-bird 1Ghz or so. AMD also has the nice little cheap CPUs, so where they falter vs. Intel, you can get a 2- or 3-hundred MHz higher CPU and balance that out. Intel is far from gone, esp. from the enterprise market, but at the moment AMD has the better chip, and you won't go wrong with an MSI K7T Pro2.
 
well it's only $70. If the AMD 1ghz is allot better than the PIII 800 and it's compatability with my programs is sufficent (sp) then I'll take it. I am just really sketchy about buying AMD.
 
Cost made me go the AMD route. I definitely wanted PIII for my upgrade cuz my o/c celeron was giving me a hard time...probably cuz the motherboard started getting flaky. Anyhow, I bought a T-bird 850mhz/MSI K7T PRO2-A combo with a tai-sol heatsink/fan and I've had no problems so far. If cost is not a factor then.....I'd get a PIII because I just feel more secure knowing that you won't have any compatibility problems or deal with extra drivers. As time passes by I'm sure I'll feel the same about my Thunderbird...but for now I'm still a little partial to Intel although I became a traitor and bought an Athlon.
 
Another thing making me want Intel is that I work on an AMD K62 500 here at work and it is a DOG! Slow as heyl! I am just scared to go buy one and it beslower than my PIII 800.
 
I would go AMD. You could get a Thunderbird 1ghz and MSI K7T Pro2 for under $330 probably. T-bird's are just a upgraded athlon that have the cache on the chip (and running at proc speed?). I wouldn't consider a regular athlon anymore because the thunderbirds are better and newer.

AMD makes much cheaper processors that perform just as well as Intel cpus. The only reason I would have now to get a Intel system is if you already had a BX mobo and didn't want to buy a new one.

But in your case, I'd check out a T-bird and MSI K7T Pro2. A 900mhz is about $150, $170 for a 950mhz, $185 for a 1ghz then the next is a big price jump to $235 for a 1.1ghz. If you aren't overclocking, I'd get the 1ghz since it fast but much less than the 1.1ghz.


edit: As far as compatibility and stability, that isn't a problem anymore with AMD cpus.
 
IE doesn't matter
The CPU stopped being a bottleneck for that around 300Mhz...

Halflife, anything at 800Mhz is going to give you about 300fps

Quake3, the P3 seems to be a better CPU

UT I'm not really sure, but I think it leans in favour of the Athlon a bit.

For the fireworks/dreamweaver stuff I'd say the Athlon probably, but it would be close...

What speed athlon are you looking at for $330?
I'd probably got that route....
 
300FPS? My PIII 800 and Phophet 32Mb GeForce IImx get's choppy at 800x600 in CS ...... Very bad scores on madOnion. Less than 2000 ...... Is that to blaim on my 2x AGP slot?
 
I upgraded from a K6-2, and it is only by pure chance (great deal at the computer show for the mobo and CPU) that I upgraded TO AMD, but it is far from slow. And it works just fine with all the hardware. AMD and VIA managed to do what I never thought they could. Now we wait for Intel to catch up (And have no doubt, they will). For the time being, the Tbird has the crown.
 
Why do you guys say that amd has compatibily issues? There is nothing at all wrong with the chip. If anything is wrong its the mb or software.
 
AMD + MSI =Rock stable system ,don`t even think about comparing the AMD K6-2 chip to a Thunderbird processor different league all together,btw I`m using AMD 900mhz T-bird with MSI K7T PRO board with rock solid stability in everything.

🙂
 
I agree with Dulanic, I'm getting the same thing (900MHz though). Absolutely cannot beat the price/performance you get with AMD. If you do have the big bucks then by all means to with Intel, but I honestly can't see how that's justified, bragging rights aside though. 🙂
 
Intel have lost it! AMD are far better. Intel deserve to loose out because they have made us pay high prices for years! Go AMD Go AMD GO!
 
That Athlon line of chips dont compare to the K6-2. They are faster then PIII's at same speeds. Right now AMD has the better chip. It even owns the PIV. Dont be affraid to go AMD, you will not regret it.
 
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