Intel or AMD?

Postby **Link Antilles** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:37 am

For meâ€¦. Intel. I've never really liked AMD, mostly because I've had bad experience with them. Yeah, they're a heck of a lot cheaper, but I've had reliability issues up to my neck. Anyways, what do you guys think? Sound off!

Postby **glitch1501** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:49 am

well at my church we have a computer club...alot of the pcs there had some amd chips, 4 of them have died...so i like intel for now

Postby **Straylight** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:37 am

I prefer AMD myself, I've never had any trouble with them and you get more bang for your buck

Postby **Shinja** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:59 am

yeah i suport the amd

Postby **Mithrandir** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:41 pm

Me too. Then again, one of the VPs of AMD goes to my church, so I sorta wanna support them. We've got lots of geeks in my church actually.

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:28 pm

I don't like either one

Postby **glitch1501** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:21 pm

i saw some article the other day about how the AMD 64 bit owned the new G5 64

lemme see if i can find the article

found it....

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp

Postby **Straylight** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:24 pm

Postby **andyroo** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:30 pm

AMD. It's cheaper than the rest and some cases faster. AMD Opteron (64-bit) 244 is preferable.

Postby **LorentzForce** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:00 pm

AMD is generally better in price compared to performance. except one; Pentium 4 2.4Ghz "C". overclock that baby to 3.3Ghz and it'll run fine with good and proper cooling. saves a LOT of money.

just not a good idea for people who wants a quite computer or something like that.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:20 am

glitch1501 wrote:i saw some article the other day about how the AMD 64 bit owned the new G5 64

I find it highly suspect that this is the case. Especially since the only way AMD can call their system 64 bit is that the processor is 64 bit. With the new G5, the entire bus is 64 bit, giving you the ability to handle quite a bit more on the addressablity field.

Also, why did they use SCSI raid drives on the PCs? Since when did THAT become standard?

Also, why did they pick a graphics card that only has 128 MB max RAM for the mac and TWICE as much for the PC? I mean, HELLO!?! Of COURSE your graphics are going to render faster! You could use a 1 ghz chip and it would still render faster at higher resolutions!

All in all, I'm not convinced. Then again, I've been following the supercomputer wars... But I digress, this was supposed to be a thread about AMD or Intell...

Postby **Shinja** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:59 am

it is my experiance that there is no fair way to compare macs to pc's in a test, theyre just too differant, and for the most part macs and pc dont share any software that would really affect most people.
i like pc's cause thier way cheaper than a mac, and macs dont run many games, and to have a mac that ran games well would cost way more than i want to spend.

Postby **Straylight** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:01 am

There are a number of important programs that run on both mac and pc:

Adobe Premier
Photoshop
Cubase
3sMax (I think)

A benchmark would use those programs I guess..

Postby **Macross** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:59 am

I prefer the Duron rather then the Celeron, and the Athon better than Pentium, but I prefer the Pentium better than Duron... And celeron.... Never!!!

Postby **Shinja** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 2:34 pm

djnoz wrote:There are a number of important programs that run on both mac and pc:

Adobe Premier
Photoshop
Cubase
3sMax (I think)

A benchmark would use those programs I guess..

yeah but still, my brothers a big mac fan, so i know how pointless it is to compare ps and macs, the winner will be one who argues the best :lol:

Postby **Mithrandir** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:04 am

Actually, there is NEVER a winner in one of those debates. Especially if you try and debate with the new G5s. IBM decided (for whatever really geeky reason) to eliminate little endian support from the processor. That allows for cool parallel stuff, but keeps a few programs from working. Find a program compiled and optimized for a G4, and you're shooting yourself in the foot. Remember, a 64 bit processor is WORTHLESS unless someone has written the programs to take advantage of it.

And wasn't this supposed to be an intell vs amd thread? :lol:

Postby **TheMelodyMaker** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:46 am

I just use whatever comes with the computer... ^_^;

Postby **Mithrandir** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:41 pm

...the styrofoam?

O.o

Postby **LorentzForce** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:46 pm

...i do. i make boats out them them. put one of those cheap motors with propeller made out of an icecream stick by bending it with a hole in the middle, a switch and some wiring and you have one of the best mini-boats out there.

it's not computer related, except the styrofoam. too bad i don't get many styrofoams since i usually don't but whole cases or computers, only parts.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:38 am

Cases are parts.

I made a boat like that once. The problem was it went strait. And I let it go on this lake...

*sniff*

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