What are the advantages and disadvantages of going with a AMD 64 bit cpu?

[dognabbit]

What are the advantages and disadvantages of going with a AMD 64 bit cpu?

Thanks

 

[Bobthelost]

Advantages, best cpu architecture out at the moment.

Disadvantages, the intel range are priced dirt cheap at the moment, worth considering.

Silly question, what do you do, what's the budget, such a vauge question cannot get any useful information other than "go away and google it".

 

[dognabbit]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
Advantages, best cpu architecture out at the moment.

Disadvantages, the intel range are priced dirt cheap at the moment, worth considering.

Silly question, what do you do, what's the budget, such a vauge question cannot get any useful information other than "go away and google it".

Budget is around $200 - $250 for both motherboard and cpu.

Any suggestions.

I'd prefer both Intel and AMD suggetstions.



Thanks

 

[Bobthelost]

What do you do with it? If it's gaming then a single core CPU wins easily, if it's media encoding then a dual core Pentium might edge it out. For other applications it varies.

Are you going to overclock?

 

[dognabbit]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
What do you do with it? If it's gaming then a single core CPU wins easily, if it's media encoding then a dual core Pentium might edge it out. For other applications it varies.

Are you going to overclock?

Just normal regular use. Nothing special.
I may try to overclock. Not sure yet.

I've just been looking for some options of what to buy.

 

[dognabbit]

I also need like 5 PCI slots

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1851938&enterthread=y

 

[Bobthelost]

Okay, you can get an 805 Dual core for around $130 at the moment from newegg. Or you can get a 3200 or Opteron 144 for $150-$170.

If you're doing SMP aware applications then the dual core is a decent competitor, if not then i wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. Both options overclock well, but the 805 seems to need an expensive motherboard to do so, while the opteron can be OC'd to hell and back on a $90 motherboard.

I'd go AMD, but that's because the application that needs the most horsepower of all those i use is gaming, where SMP is rather scarce.