Intel and AMD
Posted December 7th, 2007 at 21:34 by stinger608
Its been quite the history for me with both Intel, and AMD.
As I was growing up in the computer industry, I, like most people, just ran Intel CPU's, because thats what was available to the average market.
Well, when it came time to build my own personal system, I did a little research, and found that AMD was much, much cheaper, and had pretty much the same, if not a little better performance for the buck! Now all of you must realize that this was back when a P2 400 was top of the line stuff!
Well, stepping up about 6 to 8 months latter, when I finally had enough money to actually build a system, it was pretty much up to the P3 500 to 800 systems. Now I did a little more research and found that I could build an AMD system that would perform on par with the current Intel P3's for a couple of hundred bucks less!
Guess what, I built an AMD system
It consisted of an Asus KT133 motherboard, which at the time was a high dollar board, 256mb ram, and a AMD Duran 750mhz CPU. I think I installed a 5 or 6 gig hard drive. Man, it was the stuff!!!
Now lets fast forward to today, with many builds in between, I am still running an AMD system,and have never gone back to Intel.
Sad, maybe, or maybe not!!!! Still to this very day, I find that AMD supported motherboards and chips are cheaper than running the Intel boards and chips.
Maybe I am stuck in the AMD slump, but in all my heart, I think that AMD will come back, and all of the past AMD enthusiasts that changed to Intel C2D's will be wishing they had stuck to there guns and stayed with AMD!
Fanboy, maybe, but none the less, my AMD system does all that I need, and runs cool, quiet, and fast enough to satisfy my computing needs and gaming needs!!!!
Hell, I am running game demo's like Crysis, UT3, CoD4, and Bioshock just fine!!!!!
As I was growing up in the computer industry, I, like most people, just ran Intel CPU's, because thats what was available to the average market.
Well, when it came time to build my own personal system, I did a little research, and found that AMD was much, much cheaper, and had pretty much the same, if not a little better performance for the buck! Now all of you must realize that this was back when a P2 400 was top of the line stuff!
Well, stepping up about 6 to 8 months latter, when I finally had enough money to actually build a system, it was pretty much up to the P3 500 to 800 systems. Now I did a little more research and found that I could build an AMD system that would perform on par with the current Intel P3's for a couple of hundred bucks less!
Guess what, I built an AMD system
It consisted of an Asus KT133 motherboard, which at the time was a high dollar board, 256mb ram, and a AMD Duran 750mhz CPU. I think I installed a 5 or 6 gig hard drive. Man, it was the stuff!!!
Now lets fast forward to today, with many builds in between, I am still running an AMD system,and have never gone back to Intel.
Sad, maybe, or maybe not!!!! Still to this very day, I find that AMD supported motherboards and chips are cheaper than running the Intel boards and chips.
Maybe I am stuck in the AMD slump, but in all my heart, I think that AMD will come back, and all of the past AMD enthusiasts that changed to Intel C2D's will be wishing they had stuck to there guns and stayed with AMD!
Fanboy, maybe, but none the less, my AMD system does all that I need, and runs cool, quiet, and fast enough to satisfy my computing needs and gaming needs!!!!
Hell, I am running game demo's like Crysis, UT3, CoD4, and Bioshock just fine!!!!!
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 |  We have had similar experiences. I switched from INTEL to AMD not only for the lower cost but for performance and over clocking ability. Granted clocks were higher out of the box on the Intel processors but there were few bios or motherboards that supported over clocking with it. You could maybe get a 5% stable FSB OC. On the other hand AMD with it's built in memory controller out performed in many ways even with the lower clock speeds. Peeps were getting 30 to 50% stable OC's with them. Benchmark scores albeit synthetic were much higher than intel. MSI Abit DFI Gigabyte and many others jumped in on the OC and enthusiast band wagon. Bios and motherboards supported OCing in a big way. That's when I became a fan boy for AMD. Highly clock able mobile processors that ran cool and fast in apps and games. First out with dual core the Opteron. All I can say is They must have gotten fat and happy cause they have lost there top tier innovating ways. For me it's all about what is the best for the buck. I suspect we agree on this. I would love to see AMD back on top and get there act together but at this point they will have to buckle down and get back to there roots. I can't help but think the purchase of ATI is mostly to blame you got to know it was a done deal way before we heard about it. Now instead of doing one thing really well there in GPU's Chipsets TV Tuners and Processors cutting cost and corners has left them a close second to top performance. Hopefully they will work it out and assume their spot at the top again, but for now I will pass on AMD. All in All I admire your loyalty to them God knows they need support I hung in there to for quit a while as a matter of fact my wifes hand me down is a DFI NF4 expert with an opty in her running @ 2.8 and plays BF2 and a host of other games too. I'm sure if I loaded the games you mentioned with the 7900's in sli the system could handle them with low res and zero AA or AF etc. There is something to be said though for all that eye candy that can be had in that other platform. I should also say demos and the real deal are often times a world apart. In parting let me say I wish you happy trails but I suspect if AMD doesn't turn it around soon you'll like me succumb to that need for speed like I did. |
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