Processor Question

[augie2051]

Can someone help me with the advantages of going with AMD or INTEL? It seems that i7 is the best thing going but I have heard that AMD's phenom's are comparable and cheaper any direction here would be greatly appreciated. As an FYI I am not a gamer and do not intend to use for such.

[Frogs Hair]

I would say that AMD offers good performance for the money . If price is not an problem I would currently choose Intel . There are many articles you can read on this topic. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/amd-v...rocessors.html

[3rdalbum]

IMHO the only AMD CPUs worth buying are the fastest-clocked "hexacore" (six-core) ones. If you can afford a Core i7, you'll find much better performance.

[mcduck]

It depends on what you are buying the CPU for.

If you look at processor models with the same price from each manufacturer, then:

AMD gives you more cores, which would give better performance on CPU-heavy tasks that are well multithreaded. 3D rendering and video processing and such things.

Intel on the other hand gives you less, but more powerful cores, resulting in better performance on tasks that don't use many CPU cores that well. Meaning most normal desktop tasks, and games (hardly any game uses more than 2 cores effectively at the moment). Intel also has better power efficiency, which is of course important if you are considering a laptop.

So, both have their advantages. At the moment I pretty much recommend Intel CPU's for most people, but on the other hand would get AMD CPUs myself for better rendering performance.

[augie2051]

Thanks for the opinions