AMD OR INTEL?

[FireFox]

I could not agree with you more Techfan@ic, it's like we see theses polls, once or twice a week now :(

 

People are probably running out of idea's lol

[ERSCreeper]

its unfortunate for me though when i own a q6600 =/

I know your pain. I just upgraded to a 3570K.

[FireFox]

its unfortunate for me though when i own a q6600 =/

 

Still a very good CPU, my bro has had one of those for about 6 years this year and clocked at 3.2GHz

[DLM_012]

AMD

 

Because I don't want Intel to be a monopoly. 

[That Norwegian Guy]

I don't take sides. But somehow, for some reason, I have never bought an AMD CPU. At the times I've been upgrading, they simply didn't have a processor that met my demands. Maybe next time.

[joelthezombie15]

amds lower end solutions blow intel out of the water but once you get higher end cpus intel blows amd out of the water imo of course 

[911^NEmeSis]

Noo not again!!!

 

 

But Intel anyways!

[Legion]

Intel is my personal preference because I don't mind spending the extra money, but any of my mates who are trying to build a PC on the budget I'll never just blindly push my love for intel in their face. 

[DeViLzzz]

No love for Cyrix ? 

[Humbug]

Amongst the enthusiast community (us) AMD actually has a lot of goodwill. I.e. A lot of us would rather buy AMD in a situation where other factors like performance and efficiency are equal. I had an Athlon 64 build for a very long time. Was eagerly awaiting bulldozer release to upgrade. But the day after it came out and after seeing the benchmarks i had No choice but to switch to Intel sandy bridge. Would have thought twice if piledriver was out by then but the way it stood at the time i wasn't willing to sacrifice gaming performance for the sake of my inner fanboy.

[SirReallySam]

Which ever one happens to have the best bang for the buck at the time...

[Ryan Leech]

I think we're all Intel Fanboys here, Intel got my vote btw

[mgsstar]

Intel for performance and AMD for people who are on a budget. I like Intel because they have the best performance. 

[shivam]

I know its scary but AMD for me as the 8320 meets my price point while an i5 just has a price that will not drop

the core i5 out performs the AMD 8 core 8320 in terms of raw performance.

look at Core i5 3570K if u r budget is 210$ and the AMD's top FX 8350 4.0 ghz is 190$.

the intel chip has less L3 Cache 6 mb compared to AMD's 8 mb L3 Cache.

This intel chip power consumption@idle state 67W n AMD has idle power consumption@92W  

high power consumption@107W  n AMD@182W.

But keep in mind the intel n mobo combo costs higher than the AMD with mobo combo.

if u r on a tight budget go for AMD n if u r ok with intel combo price u can go for intel.

[brownninja97]

the core i5 out performs the AMD 8 core 8320 in terms of raw performance.

look at Core i5 3570K if u r budget is 210$ and the AMD's top FX 8350 4.0 ghz is 190$.

the intel chip has less L3 Cache 6 mb compared to AMD's 8 mb L3 Cache.

This intel chip power consumption@idle state 67W n AMD has idle power consumption@92W  

high power consumption@107W  n AMD@182W.

But keep in mind the intel n mobo combo costs higher than the AMD with mobo combo.

if u r on a tight budget go for AMD n if u r ok with intel combo price u can go for intel.

Now compare in the UK the 3570k is £200 and the 8320 is £120. The point is i would rather get a slightly worse processor and spend that money on a gpu which will make a bigger difference

[Semi1114]

Micro center

intel core i5 3570k-$189.99 

Amd fx 8350-$179.99

intel core i7 3770k-$229.99

but haswell is almost here, you might as well wait and ivy bridge chips will get even cheaper

[FireFox]

but haswell is almost here, you might as well wait and ivy bridge chips will get even cheaper

 

And hopefully Sandy Bridge will be cheaper still lol

[Guest Gazzer96]

Now compare in the UK the 3570k is £200 and the 8320 is £120. The point is i would rather get a slightly worse processor and spend that money on a gpu which will make a bigger difference

Next gen consoles are going to have  AMD 8 core processors, meaning games may start to work a lot better with multi-cores, which hopefully will take some power away from Intel.

[Guest Gazzer96]

choose between AMD or Intel is is actually quite hard at this point in time.

[FireFox]

choose between AMD or Intel is is actually quite hard at this point in time.

 

Yea same here, I prefer Intel but I really want AMD to do well and especially with the FX-6300 and what not I would certainly consider it alongside an Intel system since it's the much improved Piledriver over the older Bulldozer, my mate had a Bulldozer and was a pile of crap.

[Guest Gazzer96]

when is AMD steamroller actually coming out?

[tabuburn]

when is AMD steamroller actually coming out?

AMD has been hush-hush about it and haven't really disclosed any new info.

[FireFox]

when is AMD steamroller actually coming out?

 

Wasn't sure but I came across this

 

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_steamroller_on_track_for_2013_launch.html

[tabuburn]

Wasn't sure but I came across this

 

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_steamroller_on_track_for_2013_launch.html

Yup. That's pretty much the last time I heard of AMD talking about it.

[FireFox]

Ahh so that article is useless then lol