Who left AMD and came back?

[Zbox]

Intel Pentium 60
Intel Celeron 300A (teh awesomes)
Intel Pentium III - 850
AMD Athlon T-Bird 1400
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (barton)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (winchester)
AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (manchester)

never went back, never going back. intel's glory days ended with the P3

 

[openwheelformula1]

I've had 3 Intels and 3 AMDs. Currently AMD and going to stick w/ AMD until Conroe arrives. I only switch if the other has better overal products. I don't mind dropping a few frame or wait a few seconds for encoding. I just want what's best for my money. That includes energy efficiency, overclockability, speed and most importanly price. Currently AMD64 and AMD64 X2 offer the best overal performance for the price.

 

[anthony646]

darkknight69- i agree pentium M is sort of the amd built by intel due to its structure. but it's only the fastest at gaming... hehe.
i'm juts curious on what mobo u had. i was thiking on getting me the new 915 aopen board (Ga or Hms)

for the record the pentium M is the fastest processor on the market now. and you can gte a 1.6 for cheap and oc' easily on air to 2.4 stock. they are the best bang for buck when it comes to processor. but they dont have sli... and the mobos are expensive.

(this may be alil off topic)

but its a reason to rethink amd...

 

[anthony646]

intel's glory days were fertilizer when the xp came out. P3 crushed the p4 at similar clock speeds and maybe intel last good chip was the p3 but i thikn they were at their high in 2000 when the bp6 came out and the mendocino celerons would rip... (366's at 733! if you had nice cooling)

 

[JohnAn2112]

Celeron 433Mhz
Pentium 4 1.4 Williamette
Dual Athlon MP 2100+
Pentium 4 2.8 Prescott
Athlon 64 3500+ Newcastle @ 2.4GHz
Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego @ 2.7 GHz
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester @ 2.5GHz

 

[Crashedout]

Hmm:

Intel 8086
Cyrix 486DLC-40
Amd 486DX2-66
Intel P5-100
Amd K6-200(On first non-intel agp MB)
Intel Celeron 300A
Intel Celeron 366A
AMD Duron 650
AMD Duron 850
AMD Duron 1400
AMD XP 1800
AMD XP 2500
AMD XP 2600
AMD XP 2500 Barton
AMD 64 Venice 3000

I love the high overlocking cheap chips, regardless of manu. I am eyeing the intel 65nm now for an extreme oc ( I use water and it looks like netburst takes off at 4+ ghz) but as long as the X2's drop soon I don't think I will go back.

 

[ew915]

Originally posted by: professor1942
I was always an Intel guy, until the Prescott came out. The end.

lol, same here.

lets see what i owned...
well i started out with a p166, then i got a k7-500, then k7-800, then p4-1.6a, then 2.0a, then 2.26, then 2.53, then 2.66, then a 3.0c, then a 3.2e, then i switched back to a 3.0c. and now i am using a opty 165. somewhere along the lines, i also got a duron 1.2, a axp 1.6, i have a axp 2000.

i cant say what company is more superior or whatever, but depending on whichever processor is better at the time i decide to upgrade, thats what i get. not strictly stuck on one company. yes intel has some serious heat issues, and i dont think i will be buying another one until the resolve it, but keep in mind, amd also had a serious heat issue with their axp lines, not until the resolved it in the bartons.

normally i try to get the best bang for the buck as well as not need another radiator in my room

 

[Spook]

Intel 8088>80286>AMD 386-40, skipped a long time>Cyrix 133(what a disaster this chip is)>Intel 166mmx>Celeron 300, OC to 450(best oc ever), P3-800, (Tried AMD XP1600+, 3 of them, none stable enough(VIA's fault really)), P4-2G, P4-2.4G, and P4-2.8G.... Gave Atlon a try, 3.2G, worked great, and just recently got an 3.8G X2, since the 3.2G was a winner...

Its not about price for me, its about the performance to stability ratio.... Right now AMD is the king of the hill for that... Intel may come back and reclaim that hill, or maybe someone else will come along... time will tell.

 

[rancherlee]

Been AMD since I've be building computer, I'm never the one to have the fastest computer BUT ususally the fastest I can build for X amount of money and that has ALWAYS been AMD for me. I generally spend 500$ a year on PC parts and AMD is always been the better bargin, Video cards on the otherhand I tend to flip flop on between ATI and Nvidia (though I've come to love ATI AIW cards lately)

 

[natto fire]

My first CPU in which I had a choice was a Cyrix 233, then K62-450, Duron 600, Tbird 850, 1.4, Barton 2500, and my next CPU will probably be AMD as well. I have never paid for an Intel chip, but I did have an old 386/25, that I am pretty sure was Intel...

So there, I was running AMDs when it was cool to make fun of them and call them junk, but I have been foregoing my next step to see how the dust settles in this dual-core/DDR2(3) war.

 

[bob4432]

my last machine was a 2.8c @ 3.0GHz, but with these opterons o/cing like mad i wanted to try it out. so i get better speed, less power and less heat with a 144 @ 2.5GHz than a 2.8C @ 3.0GHz

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Zap
I don't "leave and come back" to any product. These are commodities, not wives. Have I switched? Yes. I will use whatever suits me at any given time for a number of reasons, though mostly (but not always) based on price/performance at that time compared to competing products.

So you never bought an Intel processor?