My Views on AMD vs Intel

infernox

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To be honest people now a days all go for Intel's New i7 for Gaming because its Flashy and Brand New. When i can see no difference in gaming between the i7 and AMD's Phenom 955 both overclocked to 4.00ghz and i cannot see a spec of difference aswell as every upgrade intel do they bring out a different socket and such, but buy a AMD AM3 and your set for a good 3-4 years

As well as your average 955 will retail at about £120 but an i7 nearing £200...

can please someone enlighten me on your views and what you think ...

Thanks

Me being AMD/ATI fanboy my brother brought this on being in love with Nvidia/Intel


-Infernox
 
Simple.... everything except games. Indeed, it's an extension of the general tendency to buy things because they have extra features and/or strengths, even though one isn't planning to use them.



- Ordokai
 
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AMD and socket compatibility is a bit hit and miss... previous cycles tho being socket compatible a good number of motherboards haven't been able to handle the wattage for the newer CPUs resulting in damage to the CPU or board and/or people end up upgrading the board anyway for the newer features the CPU provides on a newer chipset/socket. I don't think its really a reason for choosing either way.
 
So what makes an i7 so good at video editing and encoding ?

and by how much is it better than the 955/965?????

Thanks

-Infernox
 
Tbh, what AMD is doing is catching up to intel, but unable to totally catch them in all departments of computing, only in games. Intel see this, and are only moving ahead.

I hear Intel's next chipsets in 2011 will be off DDR3 , and will move onto DDR4 :)
 
sounds cool... im just trying to choose because i have been amd for ages just going to upgrade my PC im bored of my Athlon 2400+ and my radeon 9200 pro.

Cant play Games anymore :P

Either processor and a 5770 and i will see a phenomenal improvement
 
If you throw an intel Q6600 or intel Q9550 into the pot even at 3.6gig they would do just as well for gaming unless you had a really high end multi GPU setup... infact even the old E6600 @ 3.6gig or so would do just as well unless the game was fully multi-thread capable.

Personally I'd stick with what you know tho.
 
infernox said:
[snip] Either processor and a 5770 and i will see a phenomenal improvement
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Very true.


I mean some blokes have been with one and upgrade to the other after 4 years and are like 'WOW what an incredible difference, I'm NEVER going back to...' I'm always like 'mate, don't be stupid, the difference is due to a newer PC, NOT because you changed sides lol.'

Quite frustrating.


- Ordokai
 
Thanks all I do (pc wise) is gaming so ill keep with AMD/ATi

As i think Ati are doing pretty well atm, got 1up on Nvidia, as i heard there 4 Series isnt very price/performance.

@ Ordokai

For me Nvidia are not very good atm you never know after i buy my pc a range of "decent mid range nvidia might come up" but right now i just cant be bothered to wait when the 5 series is already there and do the job wonderfully , i just want to be able to play Diablo 3 and SC 2 and my Athlon cant take it, It can barely Run source
 
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infernox said:
Thanks all I do (pc wise) is gaming so ill keep with AMD/ATi

As i think Ati are doing pretty well atm, got 1up on Nvidia, as i heard there 4 Series isnt very price/performance.
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It all comes down to whether you're willing to pay the premium for that bit extra. As far as pure gaming goes though, AMD all the way for their price-to-performance ratio. Especially now with the 920 going the EOL route. Also, blizz has done a great job optimizing both SC2 and D3 for mid-ranged hardware, as long as you're in the ballpark there's no need to stress the premium. For instance, my rig (seen in siggy) can run SC2 maxed out with relative ease.


- Ordokai
 
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infernox said:
So what makes an i7 so good at video editing and encoding ?
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It's clock for clock a faster CPU basically and plus it has HyperThreading, games just don't show any difference due to inefficient use of the CPU.

Phenom II's are more comparative to the Core 2 Quads.
 
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I don't use my PC just for gaming, it's also a workstation used for heavy duty number crunching on big datasets and graphics work.
 
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idd, hows your 5770 performing ?
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Initially I bought it as a stop-gap until my next rig come September. My old X1950XTX started to blatantly refuse to run newer games. So yeah, the 5770 turned out to be quite a beast of a card for its price, pleasantly surprising. Considering it scales so well in crossfire I might actually consider buying another one and holding out until the 6*** series, apparently the 5770 xfire is on the same level as a 5870 which is pretty damn good.

A bit of friendly advice though, the 5770 CUcore, even though clocks well, has a fan with this mildly annoying high-pitched noise when running at speeds of 60%+.


- Ordokai
 
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Well tbh i dont care about wiether i can encode data faster i just want to be able to get a 955 @ 4Ghz with 4GB 1600 and a XFX 5770 and be able to run All Games out now except maybe GTA4 and Crysis on Super High at 1920x1080 on my viewsonic 22"
 
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