Help me too choose AMD or Intel ???

[Guest]

dear all,

I plan to by a new system for home
I am a professionanl in software developement ad I would like a computer on
which I will be able to do programming and Multimedia stuff like picture
edition or video editing.

Iknow the reputation of intel processor, they are really good annd fully
proven wth microsoft platform but of course depending of configuration you
request they are expensive

n an other hand I have AMD procecessor system on which I have no experience
at all and would like to help me in that.

The only thing I have notice in configutation comparison AMD price is half
of Intel
but wht about performance and compatibility. Especially with the next coming
longhorn

Thanks for your help
regards
Serge

 

[peterk]

I have been running AMD for as long as I can remember..........my very 1st
machine was Intel and everything after that was AMD.I might not do
"professional" audio and video but I save TV shows to a HD then edit and
burn the result to a DVD.
I also have taken VCR tapes and recorded them to the HD,edited the movie and
then burned to a DVD...not to mention home movies which were already
digitally recorded recorded to the HD edited and added a soundtrack.
This with a AMD Barton 2500 chip, a meg of DDR Ram,an older ASUS A7N8del
ver2.0
So you can see its an older chip...........the newer 64bit chips should do a
comparable job to any Intel chip out there.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121074,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118194,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114546,00.asp

I would not hesitate to use another AMD chip.
peterk

 

[Kerry Brown]

dear all,

I plan to by a new system for home
I am a professionanl in software developement ad I would like a computer
on
which I will be able to do programming and Multimedia stuff like picture
edition or video editing.

Iknow the reputation of intel processor, they are really good annd fully
proven wth microsoft platform but of course depending of configuration you
request they are expensive

n an other hand I have AMD procecessor system on which I have no
experience
at all and would like to help me in that.

The only thing I have notice in configutation comparison AMD price is
half
of Intel
but wht about performance and compatibility. Especially with the next
coming
longhorn

Both manufacturer's CPUs work as advertised and will work great. More
important than the brand of CPU is the brand of RAM, motherboard, and power
supply. For RAM I use Kingston, Crucial is also good. I personally like
Gigabyte and Intel motherboards but ASUS is also a good brand. I just don't
get as good a price on them . I use Acepower power supplies. Stay away
from cheap ones of any brand. Go for the medium to higher priced ones. Those
three components will make more of a difference to the stability and
enjoyment of your system than the CPU. Video cards are important as well but
they are harder to know what is good. The top chipsets are NVIDIA and ATI.
ATI makes their own cards as well as licencing the chipset to other
manufacturers. NIVIDIA doesn't manufacturer cards themselves. Don't buy a
cheap no name clone video card even if it uses a good chipset. Again price
is often an indication of quality.

Kerry

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Both manufacturer's CPUs work as advertised and will work great. More
important than the brand of CPU is the brand of RAM, motherboard, and
power supply. For RAM I use Kingston, Crucial is also good. I personally
like Gigabyte and Intel motherboards but ASUS is also a good brand. I just
don't get as good a price on them . I use Acepower power supplies. Stay
away from cheap ones of any brand. Go for the medium to higher priced
ones. Those three components will make more of a difference to the
stability and enjoyment of your system than the CPU. Video cards are
important as well but they are harder to know what is good. The top
chipsets are NVIDIA and ATI. ATI makes their own cards as well as
licencing the chipset to other manufacturers. NIVIDIA doesn't manufacturer
cards themselves. Don't buy a cheap no name clone video card even if it
uses a good chipset. Again price is often an indication of quality.

Kerry

Intel EM64T CPU's do not support on-die memory controller, nor do they
support Hypertransport.
Intel is producing it's EM64T processors by adding the 64 bit extensions to
the P4 architecture, and they are still hopelessly hobbled to a Northbridge
chipset for communications to the AGP/PCI/PCI-e/RAM on the motherboard. This
FSB speed can be either 533 or a clock doubled 400 (which Intel advertises
as 800MHz, but gets nowhere near that). With Hypertransport, the AMD
processor can communicate with other devices on the motherboard at 2GHz, and
communications are duplex, as opposed to simplex for Intel. The
Hypertransport protocol allows data to be executed "out of order", as it is
a high speed packed based communications protocol.

Other factors to consider: If you buy and AMD Athlon64 939-pin based
motherboard, you can upgrade to an AMD X2 dual core chip when you
want...since the crossbar, memory controller, dual L2 cache are all on the
CPU, a simple BIOS upgrade will allow a drop in solution for X2. Can't do
that with Intel.

Intel processors produce prodigious amounts of heat. Heat is a significant
factor in hardware problems, as well as wasting electricity. That is why
Sony, NEC, and others sell their systems with water-cooling; it's the only
way to manage the ferocious heat that the newer P4's produce.

Intel is currently so far behind the game when it comes to producing 64 bit
CPU's, yet everyone seems to continue to defend them. Every review I have
read that pits Intel EM64T against AMD Athlon64, the Athlon wins (by a large
margin).

If you are savvy, do research, and put you money where the speed, power and
value are, the only answer is AMD. Perhaps in a year or two, once Intel
begins selling newer designed chips instead of re-vamped P4J CPUs, they may
again be "king of the hill". But for now, the smart money is on AMD.

bobby

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

The current crop of AMD processors (actually for the past 3 years) have been
every bit as good as those from Intel, and in some cases far superior.

But this is just troll bait, isn't it?

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Kerry Brown]

Intel is currently so far behind the game when it comes to producing 64
bit CPU's, yet everyone seems to continue to defend them. Every review I
have read that pits Intel EM64T against AMD Athlon64, the Athlon wins (by
a large margin).

If you are savvy, do research, and put you money where the speed, power
and value are, the only answer is AMD. Perhaps in a year or two, once
Intel begins selling newer designed chips instead of re-vamped P4J CPUs,
they may again be "king of the hill". But for now, the smart money is on
AMD.

While I agree the current crop of AMD CPU's are technically better than
Intel's in the real world I see little or no performance difference that a
normal user would notice. I stand by my comments that using good ram,
motherboard, PSU and video card will make much more of a difference to the
average end user. System stability and reliability are far more important
for most people than that last 5% speed improvement. I have seen many
systems that use the latest CPU only to cheap out on other components and
have a horrible system that barely runs. The CPU is only one component of a
system. To take advantage of the Athlon 64 the rest of the components have
to be up to the task. This negates the price difference between the CPU's
making the overall system price for an equally performing system very close.

I agree that if 64 bit is what you want or need then AMD blows Intel away. I
just don't see that presently, in the real world not in a benchmark, it
offers that much of a speed advantage over 32 bit chips. By the time the
software catches up there will be a whole new crop of CPU's out. At that
time who knows which will be better.

All that said most of the systems I sell either have a Celeron CPU (word
processing machine) or a 939 Athlon 64 (game, graphics, or power user
machine) for desktops. For notebooks Intel has won the advertising war and
everyone wants Centrino even if they don't know exactly what it is

Kerry

 

[Guest]

hi,

Most system I have seen in shops around are providing the following
configuration
AMD processor 64 3200
Embeded graphic cards ATi X300 or NVIDIA turbo cach 6200 256 mB

200Gb hD 700rpm
1Gb of DDRAM

What do you think of that configuration ?

regards

 

[Kerry Brown]

hi,

Most system I have seen in shops around are providing the following
configuration
AMD processor 64 3200
Embeded graphic cards ATi X300 or NVIDIA turbo cach 6200 256 mB

200Gb hD 700rpm
1Gb of DDRAM

What do you think of that configuration ?

What brand of motherboard, ram, and power supply? How big is the cache on
the hard drive? Is this a brand name system like HP, eMachines, etc.? I am
not a fan of large OEM brand name systems. Although the computers themselves
are usually of reasonable construction (except the really low cost ones)
they always install a bunch of trialware and spyware that causes nothing but
problems and can be very hard to get off the system. Also most brand names
do not include a Windows install CD but have a hidden partition that will
restore the computer to the factory state. This limits your troubleshooting
options in the future. If you want to play the latest games you will
probably want a separate graphics card rather than an embedded one.

Kerry

 

[GF]

Very good.

But : I have one problem with my AtiX300. I cannot get
a satisfying image on my TV (using the TV out connection).
It is monochrome. I have tried every setting available, but
to no avail.

On my previous baord with a Nvidia AGP - an inexpensive
Asus graphic board, everything was perfect. I do not
know how the version of the Nvidia board you mention
performs.

 

[Guest]

Yes its mainly HP sysytems

What brand of motherboard, ram, and power supply? How big is the cache on
the hard drive? Is this a brand name system like HP, eMachines, etc.? I am
not a fan of large OEM brand name systems. Although the computers themselves
are usually of reasonable construction (except the really low cost ones)
they always install a bunch of trialware and spyware that causes nothing but
problems and can be very hard to get off the system. Also most brand names
do not include a Windows install CD but have a hidden partition that will
restore the computer to the factory state. This limits your troubleshooting
options in the future. If you want to play the latest games you will
probably want a separate graphics card rather than an embedded one.

Kerry

 

[Kerry Brown]

Yes its mainly HP sysytems

With HP systems you do not get a Windows CD. I sometimes buy their
reconditioned systems at auction. I usually format the hard drive and
install a generic OEM version of Windows before selling them as a used
system. The hardware itself seems fine. The software they install is crap
and causes no end of problems which are very hard to fix because there is no
Windows CD. I once spent four hours tracking down and removing all the
spyware that was installed on a factory HP system. Within weeks the system
was back in for repairs because the customer had taken HP supports advice
and restored the computer to factory condition. I refunded their money from
the first repair and told them the only way I would fix it was to sell them
a retail version of XP and do a clean install. That brought the price to
well over what a good system would have cost in the first place.

Kerry

 

[peterk]

Actually I think you would be better off and closer to your Audio/video
editing specs by going to a smaller(Been in Business for a long while)
computer store explaining exactly what you intend to use the machine for and
have them build you one.
You can and should research MotherBoards...Video cards....CPU ....Hard
drives..cases....cooling..etc ,So that you have some inkling of what they
are talking about.
There are also computer stores on the NET that let you build and price one
online........a tester to see how much it would cost.I usually build mine by
doing research and then listing the specific parts I want,sending this out
to a few reputable computer stores and asking for a quote.......build with
warranty.This way they are all pricing the same thing and I am not comparing
apples to oranges.
good luck
peterk

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your all commenst guys
So if I resume, AMD process are not so bad they are even excellent

 

[Kerry Brown]

Thanks for your all commenst guys
So if I resume, AMD process are not so bad they are even excellent

Yes, AMD processors are excellent. Every system that uses them may not be
excellent.

Kerry