Question for those loyal to a company.

[digitalnav]

For example: Say you are loyal to AMD and Intel/NVIDIA somehow made a product that was the same price or cheaper that performed better, would you switch? Or are you too loyal to that brand.

[wtfxmitchell]

yes, but only when i need to and have the money for it

[Lord Pantaloons]

Switch?

From Intel, nope

From Nvidia, nope

[Night]

Loyalty is earned and it can be lost.

[Vitalius]

Yes, but only if the reason I choose that brand is no longer applicable.

For example, I choose Kingston RAM and SSDs because they look sexy and are usually cheapest when compared to other similarly specced products and are quite reliable in my experience. 

If they stopped doing any of that, I would seriously consider choosing some other brand. 

[Imabigmac]

No, I will only switch unless it makes absolutely no sense to go with the brand Im loyal to. 

[TheMissxu]

I'm 100% AMD because I like their philosophy (plus their performance is on par with many competitor products, with the exception of insanely fast and expensive Intel products).

Sure most of what companies say are marketing humbo jumbo, but when their products reflect who I think they are, I know it's real.

I do turn a blind eye to the stock 290x cooler ;D

 

I did choose yes though!

[niksuto]

I honestly thought it was about loyalty to your employer >>  

But yeah, I'd switch to whatever works best for me. 

[samuelohagan]

I never buy Intel or NVIDIA, even with the holiday bundle I would rather get amd.

[digitalnav]

I never buy Intel or NVIDIA, even with the holiday bundle I would rather get amd.

If I may ask, whats the reason behind this?

[Stonep11]

Switch?

From Intel, nope

From Nvidia, nope

^ this

For the big two (GPU and CPU) I lean towards Intel and Nvida. Intel just dominates AMD, but lately AMD GPUs have caught up. I was actually looking at going AMD with never settle and such. The 290X was a huge dissapointment to me and then never settle got reduced. Right after Nvida cuts prices, talked about a new high end, and announces a holiday bundle. I think I will stick with Nvida. I am no fanboy either my last card before my current 680 was a 5870, its just Nvida has really been on top the last month.

[qwertywarrior]

the thing is i am more comfortable with nvidia

i have never bought an AMD card and it scares me because i dont know what to expect from their drivers

 

i started PC gaming since 2007 and there were always "nvidia meant to be played" titles and most games were optimized for nvidia cards but since around 2011 things has changed

More and more games are now AMD titles and with the introduction of Mantle things really changed  i REALLY wanted to buy an AMD card but since Gsync showed up i really want nvidia now , i hate stutter and tearing soo much i am extremely susceptible to it

 

but when it comes to CPUs Harddrives ram etc  i do not care at ALL 

i will go with the faster and better product overall

 

these corporations are NOT my friends

i go with the better product overall

[91wow]

I have reasons behind my choices. 

 

Intel for CPU's? only higher than a I5 for the money would i buy intel, no need to waste money on a I5 when a 8320 is cheaper, faster, Oc's better, and can do more in terms of content creation for less money.

 

Nvidia for GPU's? If I need cuda. Physx is nothing special to me, it looks nice yes, but that's it. I'd rather have good performance for my money. No need to over spend on a GPU *cough* GTX 780 *cough* Gtx Titan *COUGH* a 280X will do just as fine in most games and for much less money. Want to up the res and graphics? buy another one a year down the line. it would still be less money than buying a 780 and needing to add ANOTHER one of those later on.

 

Price to performance for me. Same goes for cases, corsair cases are really nice cases, but I don't need to spend that kind of money on a look, I'd rather have a decent $40 case and be ablet o put more money into a part to make the PC faster.

[samuelohagan]

If I may ask, whats the reason behind this?

probably the biggest reason is I have amd stocks. Also I find that although amds drivers are a tad buggy at least they actually install unlike NVIDIA where it does not even recognize my gpu.

[D3MON]

ive had amd, intel and nvidia (you don't say)
at the moment i believe AMD are giving nvidia a kicking with regards to what you pay and what you get so if i was going to buy a card now itd be a 7950/r9-280x or r9-290x (im a genius that can turn a fan to say... 60%)

amd and intel are equal for the bang/buck up untill you get to the 8320/8350/i5/i7, the thing is there you probably shouldnt be buying anything over the £116 8320, the reason i say this is the world is getting more and more multi-threaded,  if you JUST want to game and every fps counts-get a £160 i5, if you want to get every fps AND render....get a £260 i7, but for most of us we can get the £116 8320, overclock it a little, get 90% of the gaming performance of the i5 and match the i7 in rendering/gaming but save ourselfs £150...
by "ourselfs" i dont mean a fanboy, i mean a consumer let me get that straight.

amd had the better proccessors in the athlon 64 so i was with them, i then switched to pentium dual cores because i loved (still do) wolfdale, then i stuck with intel and thier core 2 quads q6600, i then decided to give amd's phenoms a try and love them, they cost less, overclock more and are just good chips, plus unlocking cores is awesome.
so when i see the way the future is going i think amd's IPC will catch up faster than intel can make advancements and thier hardware hyperthreading will have the advantage.

that said im looking at getting a 3930k (second hand) and a p9x79-e WS (or rampage 4 BE) because amd has nothing to compete (they arnt trying), if they did they'd probably be cheaper and id be buying that.

this thread kinda backs up my theory of "i have an intel cpu, therefore i cant buy an amd gpu" and therefore most intel users..stick with intel, and nvidia users stick with nvidia, there are exceptions but as people we do have some weird thing about loyalty, if anyone has seen the film "21" (blackjack) they will get the reference that if on a gameshow a nice sports car is parked behind 1 of 3 doors someone will pick a door and if given a chance to change they will likely stick to thier choice (mythbusters did this too i think).

theres no sense in brand loyalty (severe cases of DOA and bad customer service being the exception maybe), decide what your needs are and chose accordingly, thats the best option.

[nsyedhasan]

I get whatever I think has a good value and performance. Like if I was going to buy an i3, I wouldn't get an i3 I would buy a FX 8320 or FX 6300 because it is the performance of an i5 but cheaper.

[naca1227]

I'm a high flying Logitech fanboy, I'll tell you that. 

[linusforsell]

Sadly, AMD has probably lost me as a customer for the remaining part of my life. I've never not had problems with their products; Even since the time of ATI there's always been issues with their products. I'll gladly pay the slight price premium associated with Nvidia or Intel if that means my stuff works as intended. Surely there are tons of people that have not had issues with them, and that's great, I'm glad you can still trust the company—But I will never again put a dollar in their pocket.

[SteepGnomeKing]

Nvidia (fantastic imo, didn't like AMD drivers, interface, and overall appeal) But, shadowplay, game streaming doesn't support my $700 video card,

Yea I have no problem switching. Let's me know where a companies priorities are. There goes a shield sale. Same with well over 100+ more that I have talked to that own laptops and wanted streaming because they wanted to buy a shield.

 

AMD and Intel for processors I could care less. They both work great. Have to play it by ear and see what games you play and if they are going to support more cores or less, than you can decide.

[Torg73]

ATM I have a intel 4670k cpu and a gtx 770 gpu but that's now, I had amp cpu and radeon gpu's in the past, just the turn of the blue and green teams.  Been thinking of making a cheap pc with AMD APU to replace my ageing Samsung NC10 or I might get a laptop/tablet instead, but am willing to go down the AMD route for it any case.

[bradscoolio]

Depends on features for me

[Giggitygoebbels]

I go intel because of Hackintosh and LGA2011,I go nVidia because they are cheaper here,and that they offer CUDA capabilities.

[Craftable124]

I say no because I use nvidia cards for ShadowPlay, GameStream (to SHIELD), and Geforce Experience. (AMD's version of Experience cant touch it.) And if AMD made a cheaper, more powerful CPU than my i7, I wouldn't switch because of the fact I'd need a new MoBo. If I were building the PC at the time however, I'd choose whichever was cheaper and had the necessary power. 

[TTesla]

Hmm. Y is there a no button, since the other options are all no's and more specific!

[EChondo]

Price:performance is the main factor of my decisions. I am loyal to no company, I just buy the product that is available with the best price:performance that fits my needs.