AMD or Intel?

[Jesse]

Intel is best.

[mr kennedy]

From running hosting servers (like x10's) to the home PC's, I'm still with Intel!

[Jesse]

For Servers i recommend Quadcore/Xeon.

[scummerz]

i have AMD athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz nd it runs a lot faster then all intel computers i've used, amd is improving a lot better then intel now, they've released quad core processors and amd bought ati so i gues when comparing u can also compare their graphics

[chewett]

intel are far better for power and power is what you want

[cyberzone]

Yeah..AMD is the faster..It very good!

[Silverspoon]

I prefer Intel as it allows me to have all 3 major OS types on one box (Mac,Windows,Nix). Remember, Quad core is 2 dual core + glue... Intel will need to work on that so the 4 processors can work together as well as a dual core without the bottleneck and doubling the power cost.

[naresh]

well earlier Intel has no match but nowadays AMD is catching up but still far behind Intel,
what I think of the reason to go for intel is that most application are there for intel based software so if one goes for AMD one can have compatibility problem and for those who are not much into software it will have great problem for them so one would prefer to go for Intel,
so its service which makes a great different,
also AMD has image that its processors have more heating problem so its not easy to change mindset of people,
so Intel is my choice also

[Admonisher]

I find that benchmarks do not live up to actual gaming, and in that department an AMD processor tends to preform equal to the next generation up from the equivilant Intell processor. I also find that alot of benchmarking software cators to intell design.

Intell tends to win on anything that uses small ammounts of data at a fast pace. ( racing games, alot of graphic editing software, multimedia, cracking software, etc. )

AMD tends to beat out intell on anything that uses large chunks of data at any pace. ( MMORPGs and most RPGS, dealing with raw video and audio files, working out complex mathmatic formulas, etc. )

All of that said- most likely the average user will not notice a difference between comparable processors regardless because they do not push them to thier breaking points which is where the real differences start to show up.