Intel or AMD?

[Corpse]

I'll be moving house soon, and I hope to buy a new desktop at sometime in the Summer. My budget is gonna be around £700, though I may be able to go a little over that.

Basically, at the moment, I have to choose between an Intel or AMD CPU. The Intel build will cost me an extra £49.

The AMD CPU is a PHENOM II X4 965 (3.40GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3).
The Intel one is an i5-760 Quad Core (2.80GHz, 8MB Cache) + Turbo Boost.

Halp...

[(SWGO)Minas_Thirith]

My advice: intel

Speed is nice but.

Intel gives more suport.
Is more stable.
Is more reliable.
And its a higher qualety.

AMD in this case is faster yet i prefer qualety over speed.

[Corpse]

At most, the turbo boot on the intel CPU goes to 3.33GHz, but it's still £49 more expensive. Quality and speed aren't the only factors, I have a budget to keep to...

[Admiral_Aeka]

as a rule, I like to go with intel cause I've heard too many tales of AMD's being cheap, and on failing the tech support not being there, warranty loopholes...

There's also a debate as to whether in fact they are faster, because a pal of mine (who I believe knows something about this stuff) says that AMD sometimes is too powerful to make a speed differenece due to the connection methods so it doesn't really come out as fast as it's supposed to.

That said, all of this is hearsay and as a rule you'll be better going on google and looking this stuff up rather than asking for *opinions* here.

[(SWGO)Minas_Thirith]

as a rule, I like to go with intel cause I've heard too many tales of AMD's being cheap, and on failing the tech support not being there, warranty loopholes...

There's also a debate as to whether in fact they are faster, because a pal of mine (who I believe knows something about this stuff) says that AMD sometimes is too powerful to make a speed differenece due to the connection methods so it doesn't really come out as fast as it's supposed to.

Yes aeka ive worked whith AMD before....i know keeping up whith a buget is important.
AMD doesent come out as fast as it should be while intel comes faster.

Back about 6 years ago i had an AMD sempron +3200 it was supossed to run at 1.2GHZ instead it was running at 1GHZ.
Thats 20% diffrence.

Now im running an intel Q8200 Quad-core running at a technical 2.33GHZ yet whith no overclocking its working at 2.4GHZ thats 0.07GHZ faster per core than they say it does.


MT

[toad]

I run both Intel and AMD for my business clients. By far I am a bigger fan of AMD on the desktop than Intel. I get a bigger bang for my money which makes my end users happier. As for quality I have installed hundreds of machines with AMD chips and haven't had a problem with them. If you are going the custom build route I would recommend a AMD chip, ASUS motherboard, Kingston RAM, and Win 7 64-bit. I have had the best luck with my whitebox solutions using that combo.

[WD-40]

So what you're trying to say is, which chip keeps your BF2 Avitar from 'freezing up', when an azz-load of explosions are going off all around you causing your computer screen to light up the entire room, all while momentarily blinding you...Sounds like a job for BAT-MATT!

[KOko]

Intel gives more suport.
Is more stable.
Is more reliable.
And its a higher qualety.

AMD in this case is faster yet i prefer qualety over speed.

Intel gives no support becouse you will never need support for CPU.
Intel is not more stable.
Intel is not more reliable.
Intel is not higher quality.

AMD is not faster.

Back about 6 years ago i had an AMD sempron +3200 it was supossed to run at 1.2GHZ instead it was running at 1GHZ.
Thats 20% diffrence.

So you got a smart CPU with power control and you didnt like it ?
Btw, Sempron 3200+ used to run at stock speed of 1.8 GHz - http://products.amd.com/(S(tvv5u2a3lutn1t3dy4qye345))/pages/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=147&f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=&f10=&f11=&f12=

Now im running an intel Q8200 Quad-core running at a technical 2.33GHZ yet whith no overclocking its working at 2.4GHZ thats 0.07GHZ faster per core than they say it does.

Now you got CPU that has not power control and you like it ?

I run both Intel and AMD for my business clients. By far I am a bigger fan of AMD on the desktop than Intel.

I use AMD for my home desktop and I don't think I will change to Intel any time soon.

But,... Phenom X4 is a joke. I say wait till the time to buy comes and decide then. I think the X6 Phenoms will be in your price tag by then.

[haasd0gg]

AMD scarred me for life with their stupid k6 2.
They can suck it. jerks.

[Matt-Chicago]

LOL Haas, I had a K6-2 in the first computer I bought after college, a Compaq I think.

Anyways, I've been building my own systems since that one (1997/8), always used AMD and have had no issues at all.
I think AMD is a much better value if you're building the system yourself, but I wouldn't shy away from a pre-configured Intel.
To me, either will work, it's all about the specs. Whatever you do, don't call it ADM.