AMD versus Intel

spitfier

On performance, who makes the best chips?

Gilgamesh

please, close this thread.
it's just not worth it

Rattlehead_ie

god this could be a long thread.
In my opinion the AMD 64bit Socket 939 processors are prob the best around for value and performance, u'd have to pay through the nose for a 64bit Intel chip.

AlienGav

spitfier wrote:

On performance, who makes the best chips?

Gilgamesh wrote:

please, close this thread.
it's just not worth it

Hehe! Welcome to Boards.ie Spitfier

po0k

AMD. Without a doubt.

Intel really dropped the ball on all fronts but the mobile sector in the last generation or so.
Performance per watt, per clock or per unit cost is pretty bad compared to AMDs.
And there's that annoying Intel ding-ding-DING on Dell ads.

spitfier

Why thankyou And I know it's a touchy subject with some people but from what I've heard you get more for your buck with AMD. I'm building my dream system someday soon when I receive my college grant. I'm going to put 2/3K into the machine

magick

On performance, who makes the best chips?

omg sooo old

well if ur playing sonic the hedgehog when hes running down a hill , the amd fx57 is teh the best

however playing super mario wolrd when he has yoshi then the intel extreme edition is ur friend

xbox sux , playstation is teh the best and so on and so fourth

the real quesiton is strawberries vs oranges which one is better and faster?!

Joeface

this might help some bit or maybe make it worse

http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html?modelx=33&model1=62&model2=115&chart=26

SouperComputer

they are both great, with the exception of celeron

Inquitus

I'd pick the Pentium M as the best out there on a single core, and no doubt the AMD dualcores

masteroftherealm

Inquitus wrote:

I'd pick the Pentium M as the best out there on a single core, and no doubt the AMD dualcores

Yup agree totally. Dothan is the best single core chip out there ATM and Opterons in particular are the best dual core chips!
All that being said my next system is going to be S754(",) Cause I can build a 754system for half the price and get 90%of the performance anyway!

sionnach

Depends on what it'll be used for but as a general rule AMD ftw

Plankmonkey

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WizZard

Cyrix tbh

masteroftherealm

Ooo transmeta with x86translation ;p

ConnD3mned

magick wrote:

the real quesiton is strawberries vs oranges which one is better and faster?!

Strawberries are so much faster than oranges. Even the thought of comparing them on speed is ridiculous.

po0k

WizZard wrote:

Cyrix tbh

VIA C7 + Padlock whips the píss out of hi-end P4s on AES cipher tasks, so - dependent on application - they are better :v:

Gilgamesh

SyxPak wrote:

VIA C7 + Padlock whips the píss out of hi-end P4s on AES cipher tasks, so - dependent on application - they are better :v:

especially if you go all nostalgic and want to play Need for Speed 2, which doesn't work on my Pentium D 840 Rig, schnief schnief

gline

ah this thread has been done many a time over. It all depends what u wana do.

answer is - google it

spitfier

sionnach wrote:

Depends on what it'll be used for but as a general rule AMD ftw

I want to use it for high-end gaming, alot of DVD shrinking, ripping and burning and converting DivX to DVD-R. I also would like to be able to download multiple torrents without making my system creep.

DemonOfTheFall

If you want to do a lot of DivXing / MPEGing / Ripping and playing games at the same time there is no option other than the X2, to be honest. If you get the X2 3800+ or 4200+ I'd say youd be very happy with gaming and multitasking performance.

As for the torrent thing, if you're using Azureus and it slows your system down like mad, it's because azureus is absolute crap bloatware. Use uTorrent, every useful feature that azureus has and about 1/10 as much resource usage.

Plankmonkey

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

As for the torrent thing, if you're using Azureus and it slows your system down like mad, it's because azureus is absolute crap bloatware. Use uTorrent, every useful feature that azureus has and about 1/10 as much resource usage.

If azureus slows your system down it means you don't have it configured properly. Having said that Azureus went to pants about 3 releases ago, haven't tried uTorrent I'll give that a gander...

spitfier

I'll give uTorrent a try when I build my new rig. Komplett have a nice AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2GHz Socket 939, 2MB, BOXED w/fan going at €530 here.

DemonOfTheFall

I have got it set up right Plankmonkey, it's just notorious for it's ridiculously high RAM and Processor usage. It's grand on my PC, but if it wasnt grand on a 2.3ghz processor with a gig of RAM I'd be worried. Blame it on Java tbh.

po0k

Saying Java's great because it runs on multiple latforms is like saying anal sex is great because it works on both sexes.

DemonOfTheFall

LOL, that is one excellent analogy for Java. I hate the POS with a passion. Sun should be strung up for ever conceiving it.

Gilgamesh

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

If you want to do a lot of DivXing / MPEGing / Ripping and playing games at the same time there is no option other than the X2, to be honest. If you get the X2 3800+ or 4200+ I'd say youd be very happy with gaming and multitasking performance.

okay, now I probably am going to pick a fight.
In gaming the AMDs are defo the superior.
but if you have an AMD X2 processor, could you tell me how long it takes you to shrink a DVD, using DVDShrink 4.2 and including a deep Analysis.

it takes my Rig 27 minutes run run the whole thing, and the DVD is not cached on the HDD, but is been ripped from the DVD.

Capt'n Midnight

Just wait a wee while and the SUN x86 compatible chips will be along.

masteroftherealm

gline wrote:

ah this thread has been done many a time over. It all depends what u wana do.

answer is - google it

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=AMD&word2=Intel

Never trust google :v: :v:

conzy

AMD
athlon 64 3000+ = Best processer ever:D

Best value

Best performance

Best support

Best Forum forums.amd.com

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look at this benchie of a overclocked athlon 64 3000, with overclocked OCZ platinium Rev 2, as you can see it beats a high end P4 system, a rake of P4s and a fx 51

spitfier

Gilgamesh wrote:

it takes my Rig 27 minutes run run the whole thing, and the DVD is not cached on the HDD, but is been ripped from the DVD.

I think it makes a difference how big the DVD that your shrinking is?