Intel or AMD

[AlphaGamer46]

Okay, first off the bat, this isn't an Intel vs. AMD. This is just whichever one you prefer.

 

Overall, when I build a gaming PC I'm always gonna go for Intel. Their CPUs work a bit better at least for gaming and that extra money you spend on an Intel chip, you're actually getting that value.

 

If I'm building an office machine or a machine for my family etc. I'm gonna choose AMD for the fact that the lower amount of power the chip has works fine for them and I'd hope that an office machine would just be using office programs and not require a beefy CPU.

 

That's where I stand, I'd love to hear your guys' opinions on which platform you prefer for which build.

[HelplmChoking]

3 minutes ago, AlphaGamer46 said:

Okay, first off the bat, this isn't an Intel vs. AMD. This is just whichever one you prefer.

 

Overall, when I build a gaming PC I'm always gonna go for Intel. Their CPUs work a bit better at least for gaming and that extra money you spend on an Intel chip, you're actually getting that value.

 

If I'm building an office machine or a machine for my family etc. I'm gonna choose AMD for the fact that the lower amount of power the chip has works fine for them and I'd hope that an office machine would just be using office programs and not require a beefy CPU.

 

That's where I stand, I'd love to hear your guys' opinions on which platform you prefer for which build.

My use case is quite mixed, as my PC is both for gaming, and as my main workstation. For the last year I've been using an FX-8320 @4.4GHz. Not the best for gaming, I got frame time issues and it even bottlenecked my r9 270x at times (ridiculous I know). But 8 cores was absolutely necessary for rendering, even then I was up past 3am waiting on renders to complete. I couldn't find anything with that sort of core count for that price (new) on the Intel side. However, I just upgraded to a Xeon E5-2670, with 8 HT cores and sitting at about 2.8-3.0GHz (can only BCLK OC it). It's clocked way lower than the old FX, but has a big IPC improvement, so my framerates are actually much smoother, and there's no bottlenecking. As a bonus, it scores nearly double the 8320 in Cinebench  

[Himommies]

Personally I prefer AMD because there more budget friendly,but there performance is not bad,the main reason I picked Amd is that they make graphics cards which in my opinion are easier to work with the Nvidia's.

[pinksnowmanshandle]

I don't mind Intel. Hell I plan on using Intel in my first PC come this summer. Though I do like AMD for most other things (which include APUs and GPUs).

I would probably go AMD Zen FX but since it's coming out at the end of the year, and I really want to build my PC this summer. I decided I'll probably go with an i5 6600K unless AMD decides to show off Zen with some actual real world performance over the summer.

 

[Prysin]

i go with whichever makes more sense feature and performance wise based on price point.

 

At certain price points, or for certain tasks, Intel is just a bad choice. Simple as that.

[Imakuni]

I'd vote for AMD, if it wasn't for the fact that their CPUs lack actual AVX...