ayzo

I'm building a new computer and haven't kept up with the processor wars, which one should I get? Computer will mainly be used for work, porn, and laughing at funny pictures and youtube videos. Only gaming is the occasional quake 3 arena and angry birds desktop version. I plan on getting at least 8gb of ram and installing windows and all programs on a SSD drive.

__________________

mattfca

amd's cheaper and just as good for anything you can do.

__________________
mattf.ca

bauss

amd

Rage9

AMD Phenom II X6, bang for your buck.

__________________


MadPPC.com - PPC, PHP, and other Affiliate Marketing tips. It's OK to be MAD!

dooogen

inb4 huge argument

FromUndaCheese

__________________

-joe-

This is like when people say "zomg it's got nvidia graphics, so it must be good!11"

They're both as good as each other, if you want a quad core, choose a phenom or a intel i series/ q series - if you want a dual core, find a c2d or a random AMD chip.

It's more about what fits your particular price point best, and what kind of video card/motherboard you want most.

Staccs

AMD = Value
Intel = Performance

Insomniac

I've never had an issue with Intel anything in 20 years.

AMD/ATI on the other hand... I tried to like their products, I really did...

eliquid

I thought this as well until I dug deeper.

considering most app dont even take advantage of multi core methods, he would be just a fine to get the x4 980 or 975 cpu.

what he really needs to look at is motherboard.

__________________
.
.

poisonsembrace

Consider purchasing an Apple because the new Macbook Pro line have Thunderbolt technology which you just won't see on a PC whether it be an AMD or Intel build.

Insomniac

As a rough rule, 100mbit = 11M/sec, gbit = 110M/sec, 10g=1,110M/sec.

If you drop the extra money for an SSD in a Macbook, you're going to get around 250M/sec reads, and 200M/sec writes.

Care to explain to me, in your infinite wisdom, exactly why you need a periphial interface that your hard drive couldn't possibly keep up with?

I mean, USB3 is 5gbit, which means around 500M/sec, which is still fuckloads faster than your HDD can handle. Not to mention most external devices run on technology like SD, and flash, which generally only transfer at speeds lower than 50M/sec.

Do you just plan on bragging to your buddies that you paid 2x as much for your external devices, which can't even handle the transfer rates?

Rage9

You'd be surprised how many programs out there running on your system have multiple threads. You may not notice it because they aren't that intensive. The 1090T for $190 off new egg rather than going with say an Intel Core i7-950 or higher, which will run about $80 more and benchmark stock just about the same, and you end up with 2 more cores with the AMD. Not that hard of a decision really.

__________________


MadPPC.com - PPC, PHP, and other Affiliate Marketing tips. It's OK to be MAD!

Insomniac

Dude, do you even know how threads work? I'll give you a hint, adding thread support to an app, does NOT make it multi-core enabled.

patriciacute

I choose AMD, I get better performance with same price

poisonsembrace

USB3 isn't going anywhere as Apple is supporting/promoting/pushing Thunderbolt and other manufacturers will follow suit because that's what they do.

You would be very silly to suggest USB3 is better than Thunderbolt just because at the current time it's more inline with transfer speeds. It's a short sighted view. Thunderbolt is future proof which is why I purchase Apple products.

You play with todays tech, I play with tomorrows.

Green Arrow DZN

Go with AMD for the price.

johnmatrix

The CPU performance is mostly irrelevent unless you're a hardcore gamer. The SSD and RAM are the important things for everyday use.

I would choose the CPU based on how cool it runs and its power usage. Last time I checked Intel were hard to beat in those departments.

lol and you can buy a $50 Apple adaptor for every peripheral you want to connect to Thunderbolt because nobody supports it.

Rage9

Of course I know how they work, that's not the point I guess I was trying drive home. The fact is you can spread more processes over more cores which would mean less threads running per core, which should give a significant performance boost while multitasking.

__________________


MadPPC.com - PPC, PHP, and other Affiliate Marketing tips. It's OK to be MAD!

Insomniac

Worked awesome for Firewire. Oh wait, no it didn't...

roclafamilia

Intel is behind thunderbolt as they invented it, where as firewire was all apple. HP already said they plan on rolling out thunderbolt on some of their computers by 2012. Many peripheral manufacturers already have working thunderbolt products, just not for sale yet. External graphics cards will actually be possible with thunderbolt. I think both will live together in some way though. Thunderbolt is a lot smaller though, which makes squeezing it into a small laptop a little easier.

silverace

usb3.0 is backwards compatible and will always beat the crap out of a product invented by an apple..

an example:

__________________

ly2 from WF

I have a 6core 3.2 from AMD, pretty happy with it.

HOWEVER, the ATI graphics card drivers, IMO, are trash. I'll never buy ATI again or at least not for a very long time.

__________________

emp

I used to be a fan of AMD. Got into them when I had no money, and during the times when Intel fucked up, AMD became the leader of the field.

Somwhow, though, they now managed to fuxxor everything, and I am betting my money on Intel for a few years now.

Yeah, I am not a brand loyalty advocate.

::emp::

__________________
Your Logical Fallacies - know them to avoid them

That's because all programmers are also ninjas.(but not all ninjas are programmers) - LogicFlux

Blind Ape Seo

vortex

liked the old AMD FX ones but thats some years ago. I stick with intel right now.

__________________
umm, my review plugin will handle like 300k item datafeed
and scrape yelp/yahoo/your mom's uterus.

- Grindstone -

johnmatrix

Thunderbolt was invented by Intel...

prince

AMD of course. Been supporting them before they got all famous.

AuthorAji

AMD has slowed down their updates/upgrades in the past.

Like emp, AMD powered my earlier machines just because they were so cheap. But as I got the moniez, it had to be intel.

I am not a techie when it comes to computer hardware and I read about the thunderbolt technology for the first time on this thread, still I have never once had a problem with Intel and I plan on sticking to it for the same reason.

kingscotty38

Thread I think.

I personally have a AMD Phenom six core and its handled everything I've thrown at it well. Heavy music and video editing are a breeze, plus does gaming well too.

I'd spend the cash which you save on the processor on other things like hookers and blow.

__________________

flx89

I would vote for Intel. Using them for a few years, never had anything to complain

Tedel

+1 to AMD here.

__________________
Author of Heptagrama.

Ar Scion

How/when did they fuck up?

FTR AMD here.

Price:Performance ratio unbeatable.

__________________
You are one matronly-ass mofo.

ttime

Get you some of them new high performance Pentiums 2, cant's go wrong

__________________


-------------------------------

ttime

But actually:
Opteron 6176 2.2 GHz G34 12Core Server Processor


Iz the Shiznit

__________________


-------------------------------

cpt2010

AMD here all the way, cheap to build and does everything i need it too

fusion16

Since a kid I've only had INTEL. Right now i have a CORE2QUAD and it's great.

I tried to play games also, and it works smoothly

Fastone

Been an AMD fan mostly, semi-recently bought an i7 950 but imo not much of a difference at all compared to the less expensive Phenoms but I also don't play too many games.

lordofseo

AMD is cheaper than intel but in performance intel is more faster than any AMD processors.

tatrasim

I've had an i7 and phenom II for 2 or so years now, also have couple of lower end intel and amd servers.

Like both pcs but amd is usually a better value for the money. My brother did not like amd until I built him a new pc with phenom II as well. Now he prefers it over intel.

As for me, I dont give a crap intel or amd, I just get whatever seems to be a better value for the specs I need.

ayzo

Since I don't do any heavy gaming, 3d, encoding, or graphics work I went ahead with a phenom II x6 1100T and love how good it is at multitasking. Running a custom scraping app with 50 active connections, 20 internet explorer macros, streaming some netflix, 10 open tabs in firefox, 15 in opera and everything is still fast and responsive as if I just booted up.

__________________

Lente

I will go with AMD.. your money is worth the it

juntao65

Intel i7-970 ftw. I don't even play games lmao. If you have any friends working at a retailer that sells intel products, ask them to hook you up with their retail employee purchase program.

__________________

razorico

If I were you, I would choose AMD -cheaper, and let you perform everything you want.

cougarclaws

inb4 anumhassan

bmorecali

AMD FTW

AdExhibitJason

Ok, I thought Apples whole strategy was to come out with something new every MOTHER FUCKING YEAR<<<<<<<<<<< WTF is future proof about the same shit over and over again/

ii silver ii

I'm using i7 2600 atm, no complaints here, very fast & does all that's needed. I don't game but just like to multi task & have things loading fast!

__________________
'' ƛ '' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
/∞\ | W | I | C | K | E | D | F | I | R | E |
\ ٮ / ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯

BrilliantApps

Besides the fact AMD costs less and works basically as well, I like them more because of their cpu fan encasement. Maybe Intel has improved recently but at last built, their fans were not enclosed and could easily bump into stray wires.. AMD fans just seemd more intelligently engineered..

BA

bob_scott

AMD phenom

Instrumentalist

Quite honestly, AMD and Intel are the same when it comes to performance. There might be a few differences when you start getting into the super-high-end category, and I believe that right now Intel is leading as far as that goes, but barring that range, anything just under the best (and most expensive of course), you will find very little difference. I am an AMD guy myself.

Here is a recent chart from Tomshardware on CPU's that are good for gaming. This should give you a good idea on what I'm talking about.

Gaming CPU Hierarchy Chart : Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: April 2011

__________________
Wickedfire - It's like twelve cocks in a thirteen cock bucket.

Funny Pictures