Which CPU brand do you choose?

Your CPU brand

  • AMD

    Votes: 455 62.0%

  • Intel

    Votes: 262 35.7%

  • Power PC

    Votes: 8 1.1%

  • other (specify)

    Votes: 9 1.2%
  • Total voters
    734
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4W4K3

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I jsut got an AMD Athlon 1700+ (DUT3C stepping) out of a trashed PC lol. Will have to see how well she overclocks :p
 
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4W4K3

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maroon1 said:
some people voted for others, well is there other processors different from AMD, intel and powerpc???
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For the home user, I would argue AMD and Intel are the only affordable/realistic brands for the home user. There are more than those 2 in the world, but even PowerPC is very rarely seen in someone's bedroom.
 
Super_Nova

Super_Nova

New Member
VIA makes a line of processors but they are mostly used on their Mini-ITX motherboards.

Oh how I'd love a Mini-ITX motherboard with an Nforce4 chipset and a socket for athlon64's :D

I'm an AMD guy all the way.
 
Geoff

Geoff

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cptnwinky said:
AMD are just faster chips. The P4 is too slow because of the large L2 Cache. Since AMD hasnt brokent he 256 mark they are alot faster. I think Intel has learned from their mistake though and brought the L2 Cache from 512 back down to 256.
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:eek:

I love looking back on posts made in 2003 :p
 
tweaker

tweaker

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Well AMD's has never actually been faster, just more efficient. :)

Heh my chip packs 2MB no wonder it crawls... :p
 
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icemanjc

icemanjc

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I have both Power PC by IBM and intel since apple's recent switch from IBM to Intel, because IBM could not Keep up with todays speed
 
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super_xero

New Member
ye amd have been veery eficiant that is till intel release there 62nm proccess cpu and then intel might become more efficiant
 
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mfquarles

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In reply to Maroon1, there are still a few old Cyrix chips on the market. While I do not necessarily favor one brand over the other, I wrote a little book called "Building a PC for Beginners", and in it I used an AMD Sempron. My main reason was the price. The Sempron was dirt cheap, in addition to being very reliable, giving the first time builder good value all the way around. At http://www.monkeyseemonkeydobooks.com/index.html there is a sample showing the Sempron being installed.
 
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