Last month, I upgraded my old desktop PC. I have been a longtime AMD fan and for the last 5 years or so, have used almost all of their CPUs — Athlon, Sempron, AMD64+, and the X2. Even most of the dedicated servers I get runs AMD Opteron CPUs. They’re cheaper and does the job just fine.
However, during my latest upgrade, I switched to the other side — an Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz. I actually got the works — 4GB DDR2 800 RAM, Inno3D 8600 GTS 256MB DDR3 and a Gigabyte 3D Aurora.
The switch was prompted with the realization that at the top of the food chain, it looks like Intel has taken back the lead for some time now. In the lower end CPUs, AMD is may be seem neck and neck with Intel — Athlon 64 X2s vs. Intel Intel E4×00 C2D — but go up in the quad cores and you’ll see Intel becomes cheaper.
Has AMD lost the battle altogether? Has their “cheap but fast” brand label been diluted?
Our poll for this week will look into you CPU preferences — What’s inside your rig, Intel or AMD? For good measure, I also added in the poll IBM’s PowerPC (those running pre-Intel Macs) and Via processors.
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My rig’s still working after roughly 4 years. It has the Intel Pentium 4, 2Ghz, 1.525V max., with a System Bus of 400MHz. Kinda old, but still does the job.
Intel used to be more expensive, and AMDs cheaper, but hotter. But now with the multicore’s AMD is having a hard time catching up even in the server area and with the processors are energy efficient. Even with AMDs purchase of ATI, they seem to be not doing so good. Its surprising, I wouldnt have forseen this a few years back but its happening.
BTW Dual Quad Core Servers are the best
How come you didnt get a 9600 Nvidia?
I have been an Intel loyalist and prolly will continue to be.
As for graphics, I love Nvidia.
Got a Quad Core since it first came out. It was darn expensive that time but worth it.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ here
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Intel for Office type of usage
AMD for Gaming
Same goes with:
PC for programming
Mac for graphics designing
My first rig is Intel Core 2 Duo.
Building my second rig, will be an AMD.
I’ve been an Intel user for the longest time. I’m thinking of upgrading my desktop to AMD because I thought it would be cheaper. Now, I’m having second thoughts.
Loyal Intel fanboy here.
The my first notebook might run on AMD.