Are u a fan of AMD or INTEL Processor?
By shaanigi
@shaanigi (441)
India
June 8, 2007 1:31pm CST
I m a great fan of amd processor coz it cost me less and performs great and also gives out less heat.What about u?
4 responses
@shoebbnglr000 (152)
• India
9 Jun 07
I like both. But in my opinion intel is some more used in official computers. I think AMD Processor is better for home PC. I have heared that the graphical support of AMD is better than that of Intel Processors. In my desktop PC I have AMD Processor and in my laptop its Intel. Both are working almost same. For a home PC I prefer AMD processor.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
9 Jun 07
For home use you aren't likely to notice a big difference in performance between the two. AMD destroyed Intel in the gaming community for a long time since it had superior architecture and multitasking ability. The new Core 2 Duos however, beat AMD at pretty much everything. Still, the average home user who just types and surfs the web, isn't going to see any difference.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
8 Jun 07
I have always been a fan of Intel, and every processor that I have used has been manufactured by them.
I remember AMD suddenly becoming popular when they beat Intel to the 1 Ghz target, but they soon fell behing again. I have no real criticism of AMD processors, although your statement of giving out less heat is certainly not the case.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
9 Jun 07
Actually they didn't soon fall behind. After reaching the 1 GHz mark AMD held the lead in performance for over four years. AMD only had heat issues with the old Socket A processors. That was about five years ago and those problems have long since been fixed. My comp has an AMD Athlon64 X2 3800 which idles at 29 degrees on stock cooling. At full load it rarely gets over 38.
@santuccie (3384)
• United States
9 Jun 07
I've always been an Intel fan, and the latest competition is pretty much lopsided in our favor. Intel's Core 2 Duo processors are beating AMD's in everything: gaming, multitasking, low energy consumption, and faster cache (Intel's processors use 533 MHz cache memory, AMD's use 333 MHz; you get what you pay for). And now that Intel is getting ready to unveil their new 45 nm processors with improved alloys for even greater leakage reduction, while AMD continues to shrink into the distance, trailing ever so far behind in the 65 nm realm, having lost 1.5 billion dollars in this cut-throat competition of late, they don't seem to have a particularly bright future ahead of them. :(
