| vlad321 said: The last part about fights is false. I always have to listen about how AMD/ATI are somehow better than Intel or nVidia. |
Yes, there's that, but I'd put that kind of fighting into a different category; it's all the same platform. It's also something that only the more nerdy types fight over.
In fact, I find the GPU fanboy wars to be quite useful and interesting, since they often go into technical detail. You can learn a lot from them. The only thing I've learnt from console fanboy wars is how stupid people can be.
And also bear in mind that 90% of the ATi vs Nvidia stuff is trolling, and often quite hilarious trolling. I don't think many people actually take it very seriously.
| pariz said: In fact it is an AMD Athlon II X4 635 2.9 Ghz Quad Core. I miss wrote it. Did you notice my mistake and still thought my processor was bad? I was told it was a pretty good one but then you made me feel like it is not. |
Who told you that? Athlon II is AMD's "budget" line of processors. Or rather, was. They're last generation's budget processors. They're easily outperformed by Phenom IIs and Intel Core IIs and even more outperformed by the i5 and i7 series.
That said, if gaming is the most intensive thing you do with your PC and you're not going to play everything with maximum graphics settings, the Athlon II will see you through for the time being. But you'll probably want to replace it in a year or two.
Here's a PROTIP for buying processors. Ignore the clock speed. It doesn't actually tell you that much about how a CPU will perform. A modern high-end processor will be able to do more in each clock cycle than an older, budget processor. You might look at two CPUs that both have a 3.0GHz clock speed but have different prices and think that the cheaper one is a bargain, but when you compare how they actually perform, you'll see that there can actually be a big difference. I'd recommend looking at benchmarks on sites like tomshardware.com when you're buying components; they give you a better idea of how well they actually perform. Don't get me wrong, benchmarks aren't perfect, but they're still very useful. Clock speed is only useful when you're looking at CPUs from the same family (for example, when you're comparing one Athlon II to another). Unfortunately, when you're buying processors, you usually get what you pay for, so if you want performance, you'll need to splash out.
