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Intel processor is good but im AMD since is better in performance speed etc.. u guys should visit AMD home page and see for yourself

riiiiight, the most objective place to read about the two different processor brands would surely be the AMD website.

I use AMD never get any problem and its cheaper than Intel

AMD Athlon64 X2 for the win.

If you can make use of dual cores and 64bit processing power it is your best friend

I agree entirely. The problem is, most people cannot make good use of either. You must run a *nix or Windows64 or the CPU will work just like any other 32bit CPU. Then, you must also be using an application that uses the 64bit instructions. MATLAB has a 64bit version as does python altough neither is particularly good at taking advantage of all it's features.

The dual cores (also a problem with intel dual cores) can give amazing performance boosts to shared memory number-crunching programs if it is written in a way to take advantage of the two cores. This means running multiple threads, OpenMP, etc. Very few applications are able to take advantage of these features at present.

The hardware has taken some huge strides recently. Hopefully, the software will start to catch up.

-selket

AMD rocks! as far as i remember, i think i saw somewhere else about the survey between intel and amd, intel is falling fast behind amd. hah! beats them!
with amd on the works refining their product, they're far better than intel and they're cheaper!
i used amd athlon and duron on both of my boxes. one with 850mhz and 2.2ghz
btw has anyone tried sempron? any feedbacks?

selket wrote:The dual cores (also a problem with intel dual cores) can give amazing performance boosts to shared memory number-crunching programs if it is written in a way to take advantage of the two cores. This means running multiple threads, OpenMP, etc. Very few applications are able to take advantage of these features at present.

They also work in the alternative way of allowing extra simulataneous programs to be running at a reasonable speed by binding solely to the particular cores.

sigchld wrote:btw has anyone tried sempron? any feedbacks?

We have a sempron server, its not as powerful as my AthXP boxes and the people who I know who have purchased them seem to come out alot worse than the people who have the older AthXP processors anyway.

the good choice i think is the Pentium procesor, it can have a life longer then other prcesors, i had a pentium for 6 years and i had only one problem with it, cooler got down

Intel always works best
It's expensive one,but it's worth it.

Just once in pc story, i thin amd was real the best processor... with thunderbird. Now, Idon't knoww why (I'm talking for italy) in many shops amd64 is more expensive then same class intel processor....

pentium all the way baby!!!! i got a p4 3.6 ghz cpu and its soooo good i love it...

AMD is better and faster.

i liked the powerpc cpu in my mac powerbooks... but now they have also switched over to intel... damn

i have amd but realy .. pentium 4 is the best

Pentium(or Celeron) is better for me. Why? Look at tomshardwareguide.de and you understand why. If you can transform one AMD processor to a better model with silver lacquer, superglue, cutting knife and some other things, you must understand, what shit they produced!

hmm... im openion is..

for gaming i think amd is the best for me.. cuz i try it already..
intel?? hmmm.. its ok but if you set up your pc in gaming type of setup used amd... thats my openion maybe it can help you..