AMD vs Pentium

[Steve S.]

Ive had computers with a variety of intel and AMD Chips, now depending on what chip from the companies (core solo/duo, Xeon, Viiv- Intel or Opteron, Sempron, Turion64/X2, Athlon 64/FX/X2- AMD). Now if you have or are running a server of course the view on the processors would once agian be different....

I have had my best experiences with AMD. Their chips run cooler for the most part and they are a little bit cheaper. Im not sure if all but most of their newer chips will only run at the speed required for what is currently being done, right now as i am typing this my Athlon64 is running at 984 Mhz, it can run at a maximum of 2.19 Ghz. It basically comes down to what you need it for, i.e. gaming, modeling, animating...... as well as your personal preference, but id have to reccomend AMD as a processor.

and most people have this opinion.....DONT use a celeron processor!

Here is a link to AMD Processor Pricing:
Processor Pricing effective october 30th 2006

[mtaman02]

Just to go off topic but not to far off. I have had the following chips in these computers and in which years i owned them.

Intel Celeron - Packard Bell - (From 99 - 02 When the Computer went bad I saved the Board & Chip and built a brand new computer so the parts lasted for another year or 2 after. Not bad for a Celeron eh?)
AMD - Emachines - (From 02 - 04)
Intel 486 - Compaq - (From 99 - 00)
Intel Pentium 100 / 133Mhz - Custom Built Computer - (From 01 - 02)
Intel Pentium II 233 / 266Mhz - Dell GXi - (From 02 - 03)
Intel Pentium 4 2.8Ghz - Custom Built Computer - (From 03/04 - 06)
Inter Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz - Custom Built Computer - (From 06 to Current)
Intel Mobile Pentium 4 2.2Ghz - 2 Dell Laptops (From 04/05 - Current)
Intel Mobile Celeron 2Ghz - Dell Laptop (From 05 - Current)

[shawger]

I think the AMD socket design will have more potential for the future. The current Intel socket has been the same one for awhile now, and I wouldn't be surprised if they changed it soon. The current AMD AM2 sockets will be backwards compatible with the AM3 sockets coming out next year, so you should be good for awhile.

Also keep in mind that AMD has their memory controller on-chip, and has plans to add graphics capabilities to the chips as well.

[Michael Hill]

Something I was surprised about when I worked at an Air Force Base, when they gave me a workstation, it had a brand new computer. As in right out of the box and plopped it on my desk. It included an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and an ATI video card (don't remember which one). But I thought it was kind of odd for the government to go AMD.

[Pavan Dave]

This is just another rat race. Each takes the lead in different fields but overall I think that AMD is better. Of course I am a gamer and I do look at speed/$ along with cooling and other facters but I am a fan of AMD. Intel is good but over priced tbh and its not worth it to me.

Pavan

[Cuog]

At the present moment the Core 2 Duo is the best for performance, but I don't see it staying that way for long as AMD/ATi start bringing out their new stuff in the next few months. i have always prefered AMD chips simply because i have had fewer stablity problems with them, also even though some people like to dis the semprons, don't they OC like crazy mine is w/ mostly stock cooling and will out perform alot of newer socketed Athlons(equal to about an Athlon 3700+ on s939).

For real world performance on my computer, I can run 3ds rendering hair and fur designs, have phootoshop open int he background with just stuff there, DivX playing movies, and Firefox with about a billion (approx. 10)Tabs open and still be able to work(granted rendering is slower)

btw the stock speed for my CPU is 1.8GHz