AMD or INTEL for a new purchase ?

[groscon]

Hi,

The débat is always actual I think. I do not have found any topic relative to that on X10hosting.com forums. So....

So please dont mind what have they been opinions in the past.
At your opinion, at this moment, what plateform you prefer within AMD and Intel ?
If possible it would be great to explain your choice and criteris with précisions:

Equipement cost, fiability, performances, noise etc..

In fact I know the question has been asqued several times.
But even for an old geek, its sometime hard to make a quick choice when have to purchase a new PC at a "T" time. Because the situation have varied and the Athlons XP are not comparble with actuals AMD multicore and its the same between P IV and qudaicore.
Personaly, I have alterned several plateform and actually I have several PC at home (P4 3.2 HT, AMD sempron 64 , 1 core2 duo E 6300, 1 PIII 850 notebook, 1 Centrino 1.6... 1AMD Athlon XP 1.8 !! )

As you can see, I'm not a "locked customer" neither at AMD or Intel. I buy the best of the moment at the moment I buy.

I would like to know the choice of the moment, at this time, of other people and their motivations.
That will help for future quick purchase to do !
So dont forget to explain your choice. In fact, AMD or Intel is not the good question..
The good might be... " Actually, why do you prefer... ? What usage for this... etc.. "

Thanks for your answers. Sorry for my awfull english and... Best regards from France to all :drool:

[Evocation]

Intel cure 2 duo imo is the processor to get at the moment. I don't buy the quad cores yet as theyre just stuck together duo's with intels, and AMD's are abit iffy

From what I've read of comparisons they offer better performance for a better price general.

[Fedlerner]

I agree with Evocation. Intel Core 2 duo is the best one at this moment.

[DeadBattery]

I agree with Evocation and fedlerner.
Intel Core Duo pwns everything else.

[Smith6612]

Intel for the world. AMd makes some nice CPUs, but Intel I find gives more RAW power. I have an Intel Q6600 and even with programs that support 4 CPU cores, it hardly runs any higher than 70% usage at the most because of it's speed. When gaming, my CPU sits at 25% usage.

[Jesse]

I would prefer Intel because i never tried AMD. Yeah Intel Core Duo Rocks!

[VPmase]

I've heard good things about both. I'd say they are about even to me.

[alexandgruntz]

Yeah Intel Core Duo Rocks!

Core Duos were earlier versions of Core 2 Duos, the Core Duos being in laptops only. ;)

I'd go Intel, Core 2 is the main reason.

[TechAsh]

I've always used AMD's, I'm not really sure why. I've never had any problems with AMD so I don't see the point in changing. This may not be the case anymore but AMDs used to be more efficient than Intel processors.

Looking at some comparisons between Intel's and AMD's new quad-core processors, Intel does seem to produce the processor with the most power, but AMD uses tried and tested architecture, which may be more stable/efficient than the brand new design Intel have come up with.

This post probably hasn't been much use in helping users to decide which process make to go for, but I don't think there is much between them.

There is a very long article here which talks about both AMD's and Intel's Quad core processors, but also talks about other things.

[lammoj]

I gotta go with intel also. AMD proccesors are just a waste of money when you can use an Intel one instead