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
Lexonrin said:
I also heard that AMD are about 5% slower than Intel Chips... is that true?

Oh, just to let you know... i am new :D
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im prolly gettin annoying using games in all of my posts...but thats how i decide wut i like to go with. anyway...amd's kick ass the category of gaming...but if ur more of a general computer user...or ur in2 video production then intel have very strong chips.

and dont worry...we all gotta start somewhere
 
In the beggining, AMD were thought of a knock off copy of Intel. AMD were made in sweat shops were as Intels were made in the US. There probably both made in sweat shops now.

Jimbob
 
cooking AMD's

I prefer Intel, i never had a problem with an Intel
i will never buy an AMD after seeing this video: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/200...wnload_the_first_toms_hardware_test_lab_video

My friend bought 4 AMD motherboards w/ processors and heatsinks put on at the factory directly from AMD.

A cooling fan on the processor failed and 1 processor fried up.
then another fan failed, and the processor fried.
then a very hot summer day, one fried.
now he's down to one working AMD processor, that he got a water cooling system on. so it's ok now.

and he never OC'ed the processors, they were set at the factory, and never messed around with.

now, i have run Intel Processors under some very abusive experiments. they still work.

I still have 386's in my basement that work. I never had an Intel chip fail on me.

however, AMD's are a bit cheaper, and i've heard they are easyer to OC. but i can't afford to have a processor fry on me. so i stick with intel.
 
kb1ghc said:
however, AMD's are a bit cheaper, and i've heard they are easyer to OC. but i can't afford to have a processor fry on me. so i stick with intel.
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out of my 4 different AMD chips (a 500mhz chomper, 2000+, 2400+, and 2600+M) i have never fried a single one. not only that...but i have never fried ANY part of my computer...ever with an AMD. i think your friend is incredibly unlucky, or maybe the sinks he bought for the chips were incredibly lousy.
 
The thing I dont get about people who see videos of Athlons frying is that .. who in their right mind would run a modern CPU regardless of its calibre? Sure there are experimenters and such but realistically who is that stupid to do so for their "real" computer for real use? Furthermore, the odds of CPU fans failing are incredibly low for any given user with neither Intel nor AMD fans being exceptionally worse than the other :)
 
i have never had a AMD chip go bad on me and my computer runs 24/7 and it's hot as shit in my dorm room (3rd floor sucks). however, i have fried a intel chip and it was not overclocked. then again i did have a celeron 266 that i did overclock and never had a problem with. everyone makes their experiences and bases their opinion on them. in reality, it really doesn't matter which you choose for your home system. both will get the job done and with todays processors, they will both perform pretty well at that. however, buying intel is kind of like buying a mercedes. you pay extra for the name, which quite frankly to me isn't worth a dime. therefor i stick with AMD's chips. :)
 
yeah, well he bought the CPU and heatsink already on the MoBo, directly from AMD. But he only bought them because they were on-sale really cheap, AMD prolly tryed to ditch a whole bunch of crappy chips.
 
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AMD is my pick
smadge said:
what's a mac have to do with linux? the standart os on a mac these days is "OS X Panther".
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The Mac OS is based off of unix, and is running unix in the background.
smadge said:
they also make great servers, being that they don't have a command line and are nearly impossible to hack into therefore. it always depends on what you are doing with it.
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Macs do have a command line, and they're just as easy to hack into as a pc server.

not trying to attack the mac lovers I wished I had a mac also, but I would still keep my PC as my main computer, also someone said something about macs having cheap hardware, I would have to disagree on that one unless your talking about the iPOD battery thing lol, but I would have to say that they overcharge for their hardware, and they're just as bad as microsoft on limiting competition, microsoft does it by trying to limit what software you run, and mac limits it on the hardware side, so in my eyes both are evil, but I can't live without them
 
yeah, well he bought the CPU and heatsink already on the MoBo, directly from AMD
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AMD doesnt sell mobos... nor do they do "combo deals" like Intel.

AMD prolly tryed to ditch a whole bunch of crappy chips
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Yes and if they did so they'd get sued :P

I would have to say that they overcharge for their hardware
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Yep!
 
I forgot to point out this last time sorry
Jimbob1989 said:
In the beggining, AMD were thought of a knock off copy of Intel. AMD were made in sweat shops were as Intels were made in the US. There probably both made in sweat shops now.

Jimbob
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Im guessing you read this from the thread about hacking when someone post the link about "is your son a hacker" the stuff that was said on the "is your son a hacker" page was all fake and was just there to make us (computer geeks) laugh at how people sterotype the people that they dont understand, so Im hoping that when you posted the above quote that you was making a joke, and didn't believe anything that was said on that page.
 
well AMD is better and the intel is rubbish i've got an AMD athlon 3.4 GHZ and the Intel only has the new P4 which is only about 2.4 GHZ the AMD has more choice of speed than the intel
 
nomav6,
i didn't post those just to tell you. either the systems messed or your confused :confused: .
-smadge :)
 
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