Interesting Observation

[retrofade]

Maybe I just haven't been paying attention very well. But it seems to me that the majority of people who are regular posters here seem to prefer AMD over Intel. I do also, but I was just wondering if it had to do with the price factor or just the fact the AMD processors are better. =) My opinion is that they are just all-around better processors. What are everyone else's thoughts? Am I right that people here seem to use more AMD processors then Intel...or am I just imagining things?

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[This message has been edited by retrofade (edited August 29, 2001).]

[patssle]

price dominates my book.

the first P4 processor that can put up a fight against the Athlon 1.4 is the 1.6. and going above 1.6 will cost you a purty penny.

and not to mention RDRAM which is more expensive than the DDR.

dunno much about motherboards through. good athlon mobo is 70 bucks (ecs) or 120(8k7a). cant get much better than that.

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[briareus]

It's mostly price/performance. If Intel went dirt cheap people would switch over to them . . .

[BRB]

If AMD would build chipset manufacturing plants and design a full line of chipsets to compliment their processors as well as Intel has done in the past (440BX, i815) they would own the computing world. The Athlon is a tremendous product with outstanding performance that has been crippled by a lack of chipset support.
Kinda like having a Porshe and no gas.

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[kpxgq]

i think its mostly because alot of people here are PC enthusiasts who like to work on their computers, mod them , and push em to the extreme...

INtels are bad candidates for this as for one they are expensive (so extreme pushing is out for most budgeted people)

also intel is being a whore about ocerclocking and makes a crap load of barriers for OCers.

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[TheUltimateNewbie]

What kind of barriers are they making?
Just curious...

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[kpxgq]

Originally posted by TheUltimateNewbie:
What kind of barriers are they making?
Just curious...

as in locked multipliers.. set FSB rates, etc



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[Gunner]

Yea, but some of us know the problems of heat and electrons, may work but really doesn't mix.
I won't go amd {no matter the price} as long as they insist on building chips in this fashion {hot plates}.

[This message has been edited by Gunner (edited August 30, 2001).]

[retrofade]

Even if the AMD processors are better than the Intel? I mean come on, the Athlon 1.4 comes close to keeping up with the P4 2.0. If you get a good enough cooling system for the processor...the heat isn't a problem.

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[jac857]

Originally posted by Gunner:
Yea, but some of us know the problems of heat and electrons, may work but really doesn't mix.
I won't go amd {no matter the price} as long as they insist on building chips in this fashion {hot plates}.

[This message has been edited by Gunner (edited August 30, 2001).]

Yeah but considering the fact that a 1.4 ghz athlon is like 4x less then a 1.8 ghz p4. So even if you burned it up once & had to get a new one you still wouldn't be paying as much as you do for a intel.

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