Pentium or AMD

littleange

I personally prefer Intel and they seem much better for encoding, but it is personal preference.

If you ask a bunch of gamers they will probably all say AMD, but I have had no problems gaming with intel.

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Kevicho

AMD every time

on most benchmarking tests AMD chips outperform intel in almost every way

Plus they are cheaper in most cases

John_Gray

on most benchmarking tests AMD chips outperform intel in almost every way

Rather a sweeping statement, surely? Since internally they work somewhat differently, and each firm measures CPU speed differently, how can you perform a fair assessment?

An apple is rounder than a pear, but is it less curvy?

John

wolfman

John_Gray wrote:

Rather a sweeping statement, surely? Since internally they work somewhat differently, and each firm measures CPU speed differently, how can you perform a fair assessment?

Going by a similar analogy, Ferrari's are different from Jaguar's yet they are still reviewed and compared despite the different specs. By price is usually a good method for cpu's.

Generally speaking AMD's are superior for gaming, although for multi-tasking (ie any form of encoding) Intel's are better. I personally prefer Athlon 64's at the moment as you get more bang for your buck, they use less power and run cooler.

AMD's roadmap for this year though looks rather bleak (apart from AM2). I think this year Intel will make a considerable comeback with Conroe due out around Autumn.

Ganyam

Maybe this site will help,

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6389077-1.html

Down to preference really...

VincentVega

AMDs are the best current chip in terms of performance and running cool. Some of Intel's lower-end stuff offers quite high bangs per buck, though.

AMD may be on top at the moment, but Intel is replacing the current Pentium 4 with a whole new CPU architecture in just a couple of months. The initial benchmarks of the Pentium 4 replacement (known as "Conroe") indicate that it will beat pretty much anything AMD has to offer at the moment by a good margin.

I wouldn't buy now if I were you. AMD is bringing out a new architecture as well (known as "AM2") which requires new memory and a new motherboard (but doesn't really boost performance that much - it's more of an initial step for their future strategy). Wait a couple of months and then buy if you can.

viru.doshi

I'm a Pentium 4 3.2ghz prescott user, i can't knock it, its awesome.

Kevicho

VincentVega wrote:

AMDs are the best current chip in terms of performance and running cool. Some of Intel's lower-end stuff offers quite high bangs per buck, though.

AMD may be on top at the moment, but Intel is replacing the current Pentium 4 with a whole new CPU architecture in just a couple of months. The initial benchmarks of the Pentium 4 replacement (known as "Conroe") indicate that it will beat pretty much anything AMD has to offer at the moment by a good margin.

I wouldn't buy now if I were you. AMD is bringing out a new architecture as well (known as "AM2") which requires new memory and a new motherboard (but doesn't really boost performance that much - it's more of an initial step for their future strategy). Wait a couple of months and then buy if you can.

This will probably bring prices down on a lot of the chips/boards etc that are out now, so would make it a good reason to buy

Also by the time you will upgrade in a year or two time you might as well upgrade all the other components anyway (ie mother board and memory), so the above point becomes null

If you were always waiting for the new technology to arrive then youd never buy a PC

And yes the CNET benchmarks were the ones i was referring too, i was just posting in a hurry