AMD or Intel?

Hey everybody. I was just wondering if you had the choice who would you go with AMD or Intel.
I am an AMD person, for the gaming and generally awesome-ness it has. Or even if you have built your own PC, what did you use, were you compelled to go to a specific manufacturer, or though 'the price looks good'.

Or for those who bought their PC's would you change your processor or are you happy with the one you have.
So lets have your views please.

I don't have an alligence to any type of CPU, but at the moment I would go for an Intel given the choice.

At the moment I've got a Q6600, mainly because it overclocks so well and works out fantastic value for a quad core processor. 2.4 > 3.2Ghz without a hitch I'll be sticking with this for quite a while longer, and then make the jump to hopefully another CPU with similar price/performance.

two questions? how much was your cpu and are there any other CPU manufacturer

As always, it depends. I don't buy PC hardware purely based on the brand or name stamped onto the item... I wanted the best performance and was willing to spend just a little more to get it. So I went with a Core i7 920 + compatible platform and clocked it to 4.2GHz for daily use.

I'm extremely happy with my processor, I wasn't expecting 100% stability for a 2.66GHz -> 4.20GHz overclock at voltages and temps I'd consider safe, but it purrs along fine and doesn't get hot under normal loads. (LinX / Linpack is another matter).

AMD doesn't offer the fatest chips currently but they do compete by offering better price/performance ratios... ie it's cheaper to build a system with them than an equivalent performing Intel system in some cases. Their just launched Athlon II X2 is a good example, it's better than the Core 2 Duo E6300 it competes against. AMD motherboards also tend to just cost less as well.

I wish AMD could get back into the performance game and take back the performance crown... the competition they brought about can only benefit the consumer.

i remember when the nec v10 was the hottest thing going. (now that is a long time ago)

for me it boils down to how i am going to use the computer and the best bang for the buck.

I like switching components. You cant do this if you have both systems. so I decided along time ago to go with one. It really doesnt matter which one they are all great machines. What difference does it make really which one out performs the other as long as you can do what you need it to do. Sorry AMD but you lost me when you went proprietary. Im all about making things simple and this step wasnt a make it simpler step. It was years later before I reallized it really wasnt AMD but intel that forced this separation in technology. I almost wish now that intel had gone bankrupt for spliting the technilogical world.

All chip sets and procs are mad with a certian archituture in mind, I liek AMD one can have so much fun with a AMD vs a Intell but I knwo intel limits and architeture better then amd current products.

For a gamming rig I will go with AMD, but that is only a system that will game and occionally play a movie or music. AMD also has me addicted to thier socket 462 proc's


I am building my new system on intel for now thier procs are more stable then AMD and provide better architeture for my needs and make better work horses then AMD.

then agian there are things that are called macs O,O I have one it sits at the front of my boats used only when i want to park at sea

Yep, I'm hoping for that too as thats when we seem to find real gems, often quite affordable. Bring on the competition

Intel currently has the faster architecture. Compared to an AMD system with competitive parts, the performance margin (in percentage points) is higher than the price margin. So while AMD has better price performance, the Core i7 will win the benchmarks every time.

The Core i7's platform is also more upgradeable than anything AMD has and will be able to accept the next iteration of Core i7 CPUs coming this fall.

AMD has nothing new in the cards until late 2010.

If you're willing to take the second best with no clear upgrade path, then I guess you'd enjoy an AMD box. Maybe things will be different in 2011. I hope so.

Odd thing that. I build an AMD 6000+x2 with 2gb kingston hyperX ram, 500gb SATAII hard drive, nvidia 9800GT 1gb.

On every game we play, his PC consistantly performs better.
I tweaked and set up both equally so as far as i can tell, 99% of benchmarks have been rigged.
Perhaps i just got a dodgy CPU, i couldn't say for sure, this is the first time i've ever purchased intel and honestly i'd have to say i'm dissapointed with the e7300.

I put this vcard into a phenom X4 9950 with 2gb of unknown brand ram.
It performed a good 50% better than my system.
Unknown what tweaks were implemented on the system, i didn't setup the box, install the driver nor OS.

Just, from the looks of things "Out in the wild" the Phenoms are massively out-performing anything intel has to offer.

You might read this and say "hey, that doesn't match, you said the phenom was 50% faster than your system and the e8400 was triple the speed".
The e8400 used for comparison was OC'd to 4ghtz, had double my ram and an ATI 4870x2

So all i can realistically compare fairly is the 9950X4 vs my e7300 since they both had the same 2gb of ram and exact same video card at time of testing.

Seeing the 9950X4 consistantly perform 50% better than my overclocked e7300 was rather disturbing.