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Why did YOU get an AMD CPU instead of Intel & Why did you get an Intel instead of AMD?

Well, I hope everyone is civil with their answers ...

Now this is just my opinion, and my perception ... someone who has built his fair share of custom PC's using both ... for me, it was because I was tired of the instability of the platform at the time. It is more than just a processor you're choosing, it is a chipset. At the time I was building, I was having lots of trouble with common chipsets made for AMD systems in the enthusiasts market.

It may not be that way today. Then of late, I was tired of waiting for AMD to make a decent processor. It was, "just a little more time, next four months and AMD is gonna make an Intel killer chip for cheap!". I don't have time to wait anymore, and don't won't slower chips anymore. As it stands now 3Ghz is not really all that fast for some of the things I do. Perhaps GPU's will be the future of high performance computing.

Lastly, I don't like the current owners of AMD and what they invest their money in.
 
Quality / Performance and price.

Had both. The above are what I base my choice upon and what I would recommend to anyone choosing ANY product.
 
AMD for this build, simply because it works well for video encoding and 3D rendering over Intel's offerings, didn't loose out too much in the gaming side and was cheaper for the performance.

Building a pc for the same things today though, would have to go with Intel.
 
I got whichever CPU gave me the best performance for my money.

Years ago in the socket 939 days i had an X2 3800+ because it was better than the intel offerings. Since then ive had 775, 1156 and 1155 systems as they were better than the AMD offerings :)
 
I used to get what gave me the best for my money, that used to be AMD I upgraded from a Phenom II X3 to a i7-2600k that's because I could afford it and I knew I would make my money back from the work would do using the 2600k and it's benefits over anything AMD had to offer.

I still have my AMD rig, it is now used as a test machine for me to do my learning on.
 
Intel because the i5 750 was the best value gaming chip at the time. Massive overclock headroom as well which was the clincher :D
 
Intel i5 2500K, because I was shocked how bad bulldozer figures were, like heat and power consumption, on launch day(yes I was up till 2am-that's when the NDA lifted for many sites to publish the reviews)
 
MeatLoaf said:
I got whichever CPU gave me the best performance for my money.

Years ago in the socket 939 days i had an X2 3800+ because it was better than the intel offerings. Since then ive had 775, 1156 and 1155 systems as they were better than the AMD offerings :)
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This really! The last AMD I had was for my server and it was an X2 6000+, was also used to fold.
Now its been intel all the way since my P4 desktop replacement laptop. My graphics card is an ATI/AMD 5850 though!
 
Intel 920, because it was (and is) an excellent processor at a sufficiently reasonable price. AMD had nothing that came close.

It probably wasn't the best choice in terms of £/performance, but it was the fastest I could afford at the time.
 
Intel.

I have a natural tendency to support the underdog however I won't do so to my own detriment and AMD's performance for the programs I run is too far behind Intel's to justify purchasing their current products over the Intel alternative.

I hope to find an AMD CPU in one of my future builds however.
 
Honestly i went intel because when i bought my chipset, it was the best one in my budget simple as I have no sway towards either side of the fence same goes for graphics with me I just want the best that i have within my budget since I only care about performance per pound over brand. And my chipset is a intel i5 750. which will be replace in the next 4 weeks by a i5 2500k.
 
I have nothing against AMD: all of my previous CPU's (1997-2011) were AMD, the original being a 200 MHz K6 in 1997 because (at the time) AMD seemed to have a slight advantage.

This time I got a Sandybridge based CPU purely because I'd been reading the review since day 1 and knew that once they had the sata bug solved they were the best on the market at present.

I'd like to see AMD have competing high end platforms purely because it would help drive prices down for us consumers, but yeah at the moment they aren't really a match for the high end intels on performance terms (when considering bang for buck maybe, but for pure performance, at the mo intel wins).
 
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