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
fade2green514 said:
not cheap for you... but cheap for MAC to build. worse hardware + higher prices = super high profit for apple.
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"MAC" isn't an acronym. It's Mac.

And Mac doesn't build Macs, Apple builds Macs.
 
I own an AMD computer system I am happy with it. I prefer the Pentium processors, due to the fact that I find they run more efficient. Now AMD processro are stronger and apparently better then the Pentium processors dont get me wrong. One thing Ive notice with my AMD and with 2 of my friends AMD's is that sometimes they tend to lag opening programs such as Photoshop. But In the end as long as its a good processor it doesnt bother me which one it is as long as I can do my work.
 
monkeysims said:
ive got 2 AMD systems, 3 intel, and another intel one on the way (in my sig)
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What sig?

I am getting the AMD system in my sig, it should be here either tomorrow or monday. If I was building one later, I would have gone with Conroe....but oh well I didn't.
 
Bobo said:
What sig?

I am getting the AMD system in my sig, it should be here either tomorrow or monday. If I was building one later, I would have gone with Conroe....but oh well I didn't.
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lol, he must have deleted it, he is getting a Pentium D 805
 
Here are some actual benchmarks on the Conroe done by people who arent running under Intel's strict conditions:

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monkeysims said:
what kind of board does conroe need?
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It requires newer motherboards with either the Intel 965 or 975 chipset. Older 975 chipsets wont work since they dont support Conroe's lower voltages.
 
mojo_stevo said:
Now do more gamers choose AMD? Or is it just everybody.
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Right now a majority of the gamers here choose AMD, since the Athlon 64 line is an extremely well built (and fairly cheap) CPU. The AMD X2 is also one of the best desktop CPU's currently available, and is among the highest ranking dual-core CPU for gamers. However next month that may change, with the introduction of Intel's new Core 2 Duo line, which shows that it easily outperforms an overclocked FX-62 (according to recent benchmarks).
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
It requires newer motherboards with either the Intel 965 or 975 chipset. Older 975 chipsets wont work since they dont support Conroe's lower voltages.
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I thought it required lga775 ( I think that is right) but intel did not guarentee that it would work in the older 775 sockets because of voltage requirements.
 
holyjunk125 said:
I thought it required lg775 ( I think that is right) but intel did not guarentee that it would work in the older 775 sockets because of voltage requirements.
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they require a lga775 socket with the 965 or 975 intel chipset
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holyjunk125 said:
I thought it required lga775 ( I think that is right) but intel did not guarentee that it would work in the older 775 sockets because of voltage requirements.
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LGA775 is the socket, and 965/975 are chipsets. In order for Conroe to remotely work on a current motherboard, it has to be socket LGA775, and support newer Intel 965/975 chipsets, since those support the lower voltage requirements of Conroe.
 
Conroe has some impressive bechresults. I heard they´ve reached over 5GHz with it.
It´s well priced too if you aske me. It would be nice if ADM would release their 65nm processors soon because then the price of Conroe will drop due to competition..And AMD probably drops their prices dramatically too :D So we all would be happy.
 
A few day's ago I accidentally got the tiniest bit of Arctic Silver on the socket (like a 2mm hair of it) and didn't know it... tried to boot her up nothing happen... Open it back up and saw it, had to look hard.
Important: If you ever do this don't fret, your not F'd yet. If you have a nylon bristle (and only nylon) brush, must be firm (I used the one I clean my Norelco with)... take the brush soak it in 91% rubbing alch (not the 70% too much h2o in it), clean it good, get the large drops off the brush, then brush it along the grain of the little wire-ends in the socket.
It works, computer ran fine, and saved me from a big whoopsies.

Just my 2 cents, though I might be preachin to the choir.
 
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