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
4W4K3 said:
Because they don't magically dissapear from store shelves when they stop making them? :D They gotta sell what's left over, if anything at a higher price cuz' now they are "rare" lol

wtf, you changed ur name???
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well not too long ago i read an article on Intels new P4EE cpu, which outperformed the AMD X2 4800+ in several tests, so i dont think there discontinued.

And ya, i changed it a few weeks ago.
 
I think Praetor was getting all technical on us again :P The socket 478 "Extreme" intels were called "Pentium 4 extreme edition", the socket 775 are just called "Pentium extreme edition"... so yeah, the P4EE is discontinued :rolleyes:
 
*quote* preator's HUGE comment 3 posts up that i am not gona quote cus it would take up to much space *quote*

nice!
if you have a $1200 budget for buying a PC (not including OS, monitor, keyboard, mouse) for gaming, multi tasking, and multimedia, what processor you get, preator?


(preator's post should b the model post for this forum btw!)
 
Nice post Praetor. I see your using AMD ;)

As for a 3GHz A64, I'll see it sometime, once I raise some funds up I plan on getting a better CPU and better RAM too, then I shall hit 3GHz.

Back in the day of the almighty Ti4600's my friend and I had a comparison.

He had:

Pentium 4 @ 2GHz (I forget the stock speed)
256MB RAM
Ti4600 (oc'ed)

I had:

AthlonXP 1700+ @ ~1.7GHz
256MB RAM
Ti4400 (oc'ed)

We both ran 3DMark 2001SE, and my score was a lil bit higher then his. Go figure. He was like wtf when I showed him my screenshot :D

I also paid like $100 less then he did for what I had at the time
 
Why would you even say that?
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Perhaps I was being too subtle ... the point i was making is that "people who can get their 2GHz K8 to run at 3GHz ... dont waste time with polls like this ...

Whilst I have no objection to people's opinions whether differing from mine or not ... fanboyism, in whatever form ... is generally bad for people who read threads like this to "get a feel for people's opinions" :) Which is why there is such a reaction to fanboyism (which, any mature individual should agree, is generically "bad")

I think Praetor was getting all technical on us again
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Ya well ... facts rule :P

Nice post Praetor. I see your using AMD
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Actually, running two X2s, a K8, CeleronD, two PentiumMs, P4-M, Opteron 265, and a P3 ... also, randomly swapping entire platforms depending on what I feel like and/or what I need for the task at hand (i.e., gaming on X2 whilst rendering on the PEE840 back when i had it etc)

We both ran 3DMark 2001SE, and my score was a lil bit higher then his. Go figure. He was like wtf when I showed him my screenshot
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I concur entirely, the performance of an AMD chip may be better, but it, for the most part, is certainly not faster

if you have a $1200 budget for buying a PC (not including OS, monitor, keyboard, mouse) for gaming, multi tasking, and multimedia, what processor you get, preator?
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Please make a new thread and I'll deal with .. since you're asking about a complete system, make your post here
 
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Amd All The Way

never buy that junk intel they are to WAYYYYYYYY to hot and all they have going for them is high clock speed.
AMD IS DA SH*T:D
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
Well i say Intel, since it has the best processor right now.
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Which one is that? All Conroe benchmarks I have seen have put it against older AMD chips, which is a bogus comparison.
 
4W4K3 said:
Which one is that? All Conroe benchmarks I have seen have put it against older AMD chips, which is a bogus comparison.
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If you consider the AMD X2 oc'd to 2.8Ghz old, then what do you consider new ;)

True we dont know how the AM2 compares, but with that benchmark the Conroe deffinetly an extremely powerful processor.
 
Which one is that? All Conroe benchmarks I have seen have put it against older AMD chips, which is a bogus comparison.
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A good point, as they aren't comparing future release to future release, but look at it this way: Intel went from being quite far behind to comfortably ahead. Weather it beats new AMD chips is irrevelant, they have made a huge leap in performance.
 
the poll should start over soon, since now the tides are turning. Newbies, after reading this, won't be mislead by going always for amd.
 
Jet said:
the poll should start over soon, since now the tides are turning.
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Yes the tides are turning. In the 4th quarter of 2005, AMD sold more products than Intel did, for the first time. But of course they did not get more profit, because Intel's stuff is overpriced.....
 
I dont agree with that. I feel that £125 for a 3GHz processor is a good price and £55 for a celeron d is also a good price.
 
andy5667 said:
I dont agree with that.
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That is quite fine
I feel that £125 for a 3GHz processor is a good price and £55 for a celeron d is also a good price.
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I am not saying that is not true. But I see no other way for them to make more money by selling less products, when their processors already cost less than AMD's. Well except for the EEs, which are a total ripoff.
 
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