Intel as competitive as AMD nowadays?

[Peter]

Years ago I used to get AMD because their mid-range processors and
mainboards were better value.

About a year ago, I heard Intel was as competitive as AMD in the middle
market. Is this right???

(I'm out of touch 'cos the last time I looked properly was 2004 when
Athlons were being replaced by Semprons.)

I want a home office system (plus good voice editing).

 

[geoff]

I just did a build but had a limited budget. I did a low budget build with
Intel and AMD and went with AMD. The Intel CPUs had a lower price than AMD
(some of them) but the Intel MBs were more expensive making the total price
higher.

Use a spreadsheet and do the build the same way, one Intel, one AMD and see
what the total is.

--g

 

[John Doe]

Years ago I used to get AMD because their mid-range processors and
mainboards were better value.

About a year ago, I heard Intel was as competitive as AMD in the middle
market. Is this right???

I switched about 14 months ago, it is doing well here. Personally,
I like their well-written online support.

I want a home office system (plus good voice editing).

If this is what you mean by "voice editing"...

http://www.transom.org/tools/editing_mixing/200111.voiceediting.jtowne.html

....Of course someone here might know, but I might ask about system
requirements in a group like (rec.audio.pro). Or, if there is a
better group, they will know.

If you are talking about speech recognition driven computer
control (like for editing documents by voice) and dictation...
I believe it is mainly memory speed and processor speed. It uses a
significant amount of RAM overhead, but it is not memory hungry
like Photoshop or a big computer game. Very little disk space
requirement.

Good luck and have fun.

 

[Mad Ad]

Years ago I used to get AMD because their mid-range processors and
mainboards were better value.

About a year ago, I heard Intel was as competitive as AMD in the middle
market. Is this right???

(I'm out of touch 'cos the last time I looked properly was 2004 when
Athlons were being replaced by Semprons.)

I want a home office system (plus good voice editing).

Nothings beating the new core i series, but those are high performance pcs
that come with the intel price premium.

At all other price points AMD is still very competitive with Intel. Why not
pencil your rough spec down and pass it to the group, see whats recommended
in that segment atm?

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