AMD or Intel?

murdock22

murdock22

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well, i am building a new system and planed out a good intel based system, tho i never thought too much about AMD (i have one right now). I was wondering if i should go with AMD or Intel? I mostly use my computer for gaming (BF2), backing up movies, downloading, burning movies, and mircsoft office for school ect. I am looking at a $200-300 CND price range too, and if you say AMD can you please suggest one for me. BTW here are the specs for the Intel based computer

Motherboard http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=008521&cid=MB.157
CPU http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=009185&cid=CPU.84
Memory http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=005562&cid=RAM.475
Video card, I am getting TWO since there are SLI and i have a SLI motherboard :) http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=009601&cid=999.243
hard drive (10,000 RPM)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=003797&cid=HD.96
Power supply http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=006368&cid=PS.808

The total with tax is gonna run me close to $2000 CND for the intel based system
 
it seems that we're in the same situation, i'm planning a new build for windows media center to record tv but also for gaming and homework and stuff and i was orignally planning on intel just because you hear more about them, but after researching into it i found that amd's seemed better for gaming and i figured if it can handle gaming well it can handle whatever else you need it to do. I was planning on getting the amd athlon 64 x2 3800+ (amd's cheapest dual core), i'd recommend whatever you get going dual core if you can because future products will take advantage of dual core; at the end of july intel's coming out with conroe which is supposed to be the best thing ever in the way of processors so you may want to go with that but also amd prices on x2's will be dropping like mad so you'll be able to get a pretty sweet processor for a reasonable price. I'm just gonna wait until conroe comes out and the prices drop to make my decision because then we'll know prices for amd and conroe and also if there is any good hardware out yet that will support conroe
 
id go with a single core or dual core AMD over a pentium d 930 given the applications you plan on running. if you get dual core, buy it for socket AM2 though. AMD has big plans for socket AM2... basically its reverse HT for dual cores so a dual core at 2.4ghz is effectively a dual core at 2.4ghz and a single core at 4.8ghz as well. no guarantees though since the drivers havent been perfected yet.
 
fade2green514 said:
basically its reverse HT for dual cores so a dual core at 2.4ghz is effectively a dual core at 2.4ghz and a single core at 4.8ghz as well.
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It's nearly impossible to reach 100% effeciency, so it wouldn't be equal to a 4.8GHz single core.
 
Alx717 said:
it seems that we're in the same situation, i'm planning a new build for windows media center to record tv but also for gaming and homework and stuff and i was orignally planning on intel just because you hear more about them, but after researching into it i found that amd's seemed better for gaming and i figured if it can handle gaming well it can handle whatever else you need it to do. I was planning on getting the amd athlon 64 x2 3800+ (amd's cheapest dual core), i'd recommend whatever you get going dual core if you can because future products will take advantage of dual core; at the end of july intel's coming out with conroe which is supposed to be the best thing ever in the way of processors so you may want to go with that but also amd prices on x2's will be dropping like mad so you'll be able to get a pretty sweet processor for a reasonable price. I'm just gonna wait until conroe comes out and the prices drop to make my decision because then we'll know prices for amd and conroe and also if there is any good hardware out yet that will support conroe
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it seems like the conroe now surpasses AMD at gaming but now it lacks when encoding ect from what i researched
 
fade2green514 said:
AMD has big plans for socket AM2... basically its reverse HT for dual cores so a dual core at 2.4ghz is effectively a dual core at 2.4ghz and a single core at 4.8ghz as well. no guarantees though since the drivers havent been perfected yet.
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That sound impressive. Do you have the link talking about that. Cuz i want to make the best choice for my new cpu and right now the 530$ Intel conroe E6700 have like 30 to 120 more frame-second than the Amd Fx-60 at 1000$!!!!

http://techreport.com/etc/2006q1/conroe/index.x?pg=2

So right now im Conroe all the way but i would like to know Amd big plan too!
 
Clutch said:
It's nearly impossible to reach 100% effeciency, so it wouldn't be equal to a 4.8GHz single core.
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yes we all know... it'll run about as efficient as dual channel memory if not more efficient since its on the chip and doesn't have to travel through the motherboard.
 
murdock22 said:
it seems like the conroe now surpasses AMD at gaming but now it lacks when encoding ect from what i researched
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The conroe E6600 and up surpass the FX62 at every test except the ScienceMark Memory tests.
 
yea 1066mhz isnt really low but compared to hypertransport its not all that good. either way conroe will be the best processor on the market for 90% of processes depending on how reverse hyperthreading does.
 
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