Who left AMD and came back?

[W00DDUCK]

They are all like cars to me. Some are red and some are black. (the only 2 colors they should be)



Good mix of them all


300A celery @ 450 on the LEGENDARY BH6
P3 800 on a BE6-2
AMD 1700 on kt333
AMD 2800 on NF2
P4 3.2 on 865
AMD 3400 on K8T


I love them all

 

[Canterwood]

I flirt between Intel and AMD.

It just depends on who is currently producing the better cpu at upgrade time.

Currently on AMD X2 4400+ upgrade from P4 2.4C

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: sodcha0s

Athlon 1.0GHz (killed cracked core)
Athlon 1.2GHz (fried temp probe got inbetween heatsink and CPU while reinstalling)
Athlon 1.4GHz (fried heatsink got loose)

Dude, maybe you should've let someone else play with those naked cores.....

I don't know why I've had such bad with that one computer (all those CPUs were from a single computer). It's cursed for me. I've never killed any other part in all my years of working on PCs except for those CPUs. Luckily the CPUs (used) got cheaper and cheaper for the years.

 

[AU Tiger]

I left AMD for a Dell Dimension 4600. I had lost interest in building my own. Now I am looking to get back into AMD. Waiting to see what happens to Opteron 146 and 144 inventory and prices before choosing a proc.

 

[RichUK]

I could never buy an OEM, i prefer to build around my needs. I also dont need the suppot from an OEM either.

 

[slatr]

Well, back for now anyways..

History..

Pentium 120 ($1800 with a 15inch monitor !!!)
K6-2 333
Celeron 333@416
Celeron 533@800
AMD Athlon 1200@1333
AMD Athlon 1800pr (1533 I think, never overclocked it)
Pentium 4 2.0 @ 2.2 (now back at stock)
Pentium 4 2.4c @ 3.0
Opteron 148 @ 2860

That jump from the Celeron to the Athlon was pretty amazing. My next upgrade will be to an X2 I think.

 

[BlvdKing]

I had a P4 once...

 

[secretanchitman]

using a P4 2.4C now. OCs awesome. ill only upgrade offically when this computer really gets slow. yes, i do need a ram and video card boost, but aside from that, it runs perfectly fine. i have no problems switching from AMD to Intel or vice versa, its the freaking PCI-E and AGP which pisses me off more. i could care less about heat output and slowness and whatever else, but i would really like to reuse old stuff.

 

[Keysplayr]

386
486SX-25
486DX-50
486DX4-100
Pentium 233
Celeron 333,400,466,800,1.1,2.0,2.6(currently in my server)
PentiumII 350, 400, 450
PentiumIII 500, 866, 900, 1000
Pentium4 2.0, 2.26, 2.66(current music studio PC), 2.8, 3.0E(current desktop)

Laptops: Dell Inspiron 4000 -w- PIII 850
Dell Latitude D510 -w- 1.73 Dothan

Next will be either a Yonah Desktop solution or Conro/Merom.

This is Intel's last chance to do it right. If they screw it up ANY further, AMD here I come.

 

[Andres3605]

Intel Pentium 133 > Amd 1ghz t-bird > AMD A64 3000+ skt754> Opteron 165@ 2.5

 

[carlosd]

I left intel 4 years ago and never came back. The only way to come back to intel is if the release a CPU with better price/performance than AMD and cooler. I think that won't be happening.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Intel, then AMD, then Intel, and now Intel. Building the wife an AMD machine. Back when I built this machine, the AMD line mobos were crap, so I went with Intel. Now the AMD server line is worth looking at, but the chances of me converting this machine is pretty slim.

 

[niomosy]

Let's see...

Intel 486-33
Intel P100
AMD K6-2 400
AMD Athlon 600
AMD Athlon 1200
Intel P4 2.4
Intel P-M 1.4 for my laptop

I'm not really loyal to anyone these days. For a while, I was entirely pro-AMD. Now, I just want something stable and solid with reasonable performance.

I switched off AMD after all the problems I'd had with the 1.2. Buggy chipset, the cpu was a heater and it had stability issues. Decided to try out Intel again after that mess. The P4's been rock solid for me. I'm going to give AMD another try after seeing the obvious performance differences combined with Tom's Hardware mentioning that the chipsets are getting stable again. We'll see.

I'm planning on an X2 4200 for my next cpu. I'm not really planning to OC much as I'm willing to try AMD but would rather play it safe until I gain a higher level of comfort with them. I've gotten some crap for my opinion of not wanting to overclock and suggesting that the X2 makes perfect sense over the Opty for those like me. Oh well. I guess some people can't understand apprehension after being burned.

 

[88NovaTwincam]

I DiD! Gates and Intel GO DOWN!!
Not counting Apple IIe, Atari 2600, Commadore 64, Orig. Nintendo, Genesis 16bit..

AMD 386-DX40 with 4 megs of simm ram@$100 a piece! -
Killer with a 14.4 Modem :laugh: - First Home Built!

Cyrix 200Mhz - What Happened to them anyways? Good Chip!

Intel Slot 1 - PII300@450 (special stepping & had more L2 than Celeron)
AsusP2B w/ Intel BX chipset = Still A1+ lasted me '98 - '04!!!!!!

Intel P4 2.66 & Free Microcenter Soyo KT800 Mobo - Decent 'puter
but SOOO glad I could sell this and get my SIG

AMD OPTERON 939 + DFI NF4 Ultra-D = Ultimate Silicon Bliss :music:

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: sodcha0s

Athlon 1.0GHz (killed cracked core)
Athlon 1.2GHz (fried temp probe got inbetween heatsink and CPU while reinstalling)
Athlon 1.4GHz (fried heatsink got loose)

Dude, maybe you should've let someone else play with those naked cores.....

I don't know why I've had such bad with that one computer (all those CPUs were from a single computer). It's cursed for me. I've never killed any other part in all my years of working on PCs except for those CPUs. Luckily the CPUs (used) got cheaper and cheaper for the years.

Heh, i got unlucky too, check my thread out if you havent already : Knackered...

Personally i was with intel until recently. I plan to go back with Intel when conroe comes as im expecting it to be competitive and maul the Athlon 64. But for now this A64 will do me, every CPU ive had has been excellent so no complaints for either company. Oh of course the one above exception, crap design.

Intel CPU's:
486SX
Pentium II 333
Pentium 4 1.7ghz

AMD CPU's:
Athlon 64 3200+

 

[TSS]

i've always bought the best chip out there (with a small eye towards the price, too) and so far its only been intels really... but im buying a new computer at the end of this month/next month (been 3 years since the last one) and gonna go X2 with that. sure beats the hell outta a Pentium Dreadfull.

lineup then:

486SX, had that from 3 till 13 years old. replaced in 2000. (still works though when i connect it)
P3 600mhz, with the new coppermine core. replaced in 2002.
P4 2.53Ghz, best out there when i bought it... when intell was still moving up clockspeeds fast and AMD didnt have anything out... i remember though asking my dad if we could get a AMD, because then i could upgrade to a clawhammer core a few months down the road but he refused and told me we would get the best out there now.

still using the P4 as my computer, bought in november 2002. almost doesnt run anything so im really waiting for the R580/G71 , see which is best, then buy that + a X2 3800+. after that, i dont know. the PC needs to last me 3 years. or atleast it needs to last till the K10 architecture arives which will be way into 2007? probably go octocore after this one...

 

[VParis85]

Yo Check this went from AMD 4000+ to a P4 640 now back to AMD with a DC opteron 170
And i am now happy go figure.... cough(AMD Rules) heres how it happend...all with in a month and a half or so

1st I set out to build a gaming rig. So i bough the 4000+ clawhammer and the Abit fatality A8n cool looking mobo by the way OCZ gold pc3200 wit an earnmax 500 PSU
so bam i put it together and had it for a week and i could only play farcry for about an hour then a lock up, any other game locked up quicker WTF ahh i looked into it alot tried alot of stuff no solution by the way 7800GT with this so i called newegg RMAed it all

2nd I thought it might be the power supply so i ordered a PC power& cooling 510
$210 ouch this is when i made the switch to a P4 640 with a Asus p5wd2 vanila mobo, 7800GTX and Patriot ddr2 700 By the way i got in to overclocking agian and built a WC setup custom, not a kit of course, anways after OCing a couple of days i curropted my bios so i decided to do it again RMAed CPU mobo and ram

3rd Off to the races bought a DC opteron 170 wallet just went out the window...y carry it aroung if its now empty...lol DFI lanparty SLI-DR and some OCZ gold GX ddr 500
Conclusion i am runing the DC opteron at 2.7ghz stable right now and have more to go idles at 26*C loads at 38 and am Fraging in every game i got ......AMD rules notice a big difference from that POS P4 that i was runing a like 4.4ghz any ways new to AMD and im in for life i think unless the tables ever turn P4=The Browns AMD=Pitsburg Steelers I do live in Ohio and I love my Browns but I have to face it they do suck.....Ouch, one day though ok!!

 

[themusgrat]

After I discovered AMD, there was no going back. My Opteron 165 rocks. How can you possibly beat a proc where you get almost a guaranteed 300x9 overclock?

 

[MBrown]

Athlon 1700+XP @ Stock
P4 2.4 Ghz @ 2.8
Athlon64 3500+ @ 2.4 Ghz

 

[theMan]

wow, those people are living back 2 years ago! maybe its some sort of crazy internet timewarp thing!

i went from a 386, MMX, celery 433, 3200+ winnie.

 

[niomosy]

Originally posted by: theman
wow, those people are living back 2 years ago! maybe its some sort of crazy internet timewarp thing!

i went from a 386, MMX, celery 433, 3200+ winnie.

2 years in computer time isn't that long for me. I'm currently on a 2.4 P4. My cpu before that was a 1.2 Athlon. Some of us just don't upgrade as frequently.

Hell, my wife's still using my 600Mhz Athlon as a 2nd system to her laptop

 

[Elvis2]

after running intel for the past four years, i've come back to amd by getting an opty 165 and a evga 7800gt / evga nf41 mb combo from the fly. i put it together this am and it simply spanks my old p4 3.2e @ 4.0 / Asus p4c800e-deluxe / evga 6800 ultra combo. i have the opty running @ 2.65 ghz (295x9) at 1.42 volts on h20. the best thing about it is that the "upgrade" didn't cost me a dime. what i got for my old stuff paid for it all

i've run prime95 for four hrs. at this speed with no errors while i've been playing some hl2 at 1600 x 1200 with 4x fsaa and 8x ansio at 60 - 200 fps at THE SAME TIME. incredible machine. i'll never go back

 

[Rogue 2]

I've been AMD ever since the 386DX-40. Actually, no - I had an AMD Math CoProcessor for my Intel 286-16! Boy did that speed up CAD back in the day...

AMD AND LOVING IT. 386DX/40 => K5/133 => K6 233 => K6/2 400 => Duron 550 => Athlon 1.0 => AXP 1700+ => AXP 2500+ => Waiting to buy a 939-A64...

 

[smthmlk]

intel celeron 400mhz*
intel pentium mmx 233mhz (laptop, free)*
amd thunderbird 1.4ghz*
amd thunderbird 1.0ghz
amd XP1700+*
amd XP2400+*
amd XP3200+ (free)*
intel pentium 2 333mhz (server, free)*
amd XP2500mobile
amd XP2400mobile
amd athlon64 3000+ venice
amd athlon64 3700+ san diego
amd sempron 2800mobile (laptop)

* = no longer own.

 

[kmmatney]

I left AMD and came back. I had an AMD 486-133, and then an AMD K6-3 300 Mhz cpu.

However when the Celeron 300A came out, I jumped ship, and was loving my Celeron 300A overclocked to 450 MHz, and loving my Celeron 500 MHz overclocked to 800 MHz. That was awesome.

I now love my Sempron 2800+ overclocked to 3800+ speeds. I can't believe how fast this thing is for $75. Woohoo!