Poll: AMD or Intel?
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Whichever gives you the best performance (realworld, not just synthetic benchmarks) for the price you're willing to pay. Did you look up any realworld benchmarks?
I don't think our brand loyalty towards either manufacturer is going to be of any use to you.
If you're building a gaming PC your primary concern, and your biggest bottle neck, is the GPU. Then the CPU, then the amount of memory.
I don't think our brand loyalty towards either manufacturer is going to be of any use to you.
If you're building a gaming PC your primary concern, and your biggest bottle neck, is the GPU. Then the CPU, then the amount of memory.
I'd go with AMD. They may not have the best, but they offer cheaper processors for similar benchmarks. I am thinking of going Intel for my next build, though. Just to change things up.
Not necessarily. Massive RTS games like Supreme Commander make CPUs and RAM cry, but isn't too hard on video cards.ThrobbingEgo said:
But the speed of the RAM doesn't generally make a difference. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2328804,00.aspSilentHunter7 said:
Hold on. The phenom processors are faulty. The majority of them don't work very well and beleive it or not the X3's are a faulty X4 (one of the cores were disabled due to lack of stability in an X4 and so the branded them X3).
If you have money to burn get the core i7 920. If not I should point out that currently there are no real benefits to having a quad core cpu so you would save a lot of money by opting for a higher clock speed C2D or Athlon 64 X2.
If you have money to burn get the core i7 920. If not I should point out that currently there are no real benefits to having a quad core cpu so you would save a lot of money by opting for a higher clock speed C2D or Athlon 64 X2.
The first batch of Phenoms (the original ones from '07/'08, not the current Phenom II) had issues. The current ones are fine. Additionally, Some of the PIIs binned as X3s have a functional 4th core, which some motherboards allow to be re-enabled.Insomniac Gamer said:
If it were me, I'd go for the 955 between over the 9550. They're very close in performance, but the Phenom II is cheaper and uses a newer socket. The 9550 probably overclocks a hair better, if you get the newest (E0) stepping, but both will have no problem hitting at least 3.6. Intel's stock C2Q cooler is also pretty terrible, for what little it's worth.apsycogerbil said:
true but the processor choice affects the motherboard which is why i was leaning toward the 955 because AMD motherboards are generally less expensiveMr.Tea said:
i went with the best processor i could afford from each company and the I7s are still to expensiveGruthar said:
It's also so Sony can make it's netbooks cheaper by using it's own brand of processor. Not that they cost any less. Damn expensive things!apsycogerbil said:
