Intel or AMD?

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kain_kusanagi said:
I don't care who has .5 ghz over who, or which has more L2 or L3 cache. All I care about is having enough power to do Photoshop and games at the most reasonable price. And for that I've been with AMD for over a decade and I don't see myself going back.

If you absolutely must have the fastest CPU no matter the price go with Intel, but in a few months AMD will do it cheaper.

I myself don't try to keep up with the latest and greatest. I only upgrade when I can't do what I want without more power. AMD hasn't let me down yet.

Oddly enough I usually go with Nvidia for a graphics card. Can't say why, but I haven't had an ATI card since before AMD scooped them up. It does make sense to have all AMD in your system, I just always like the Nvidia specs and price when I'm GPU shopping.

change that from months to years these day for amd cpus. and if  some quotes coming out of amd are to be believed they are abandoning parity all together in a goal to be a mobile leader. i think this is fool hard because it will cost them in the server space, but if they think they cannot compete or the game is really about to evolve more power to them, its just unfortunate no one will be keeping intel honest. i like the OC they leave on their chips but the lack of PCI-Express 3 on the next chipset is killer. what i hope and does on the first chipset next year is ddr4 someone need to make the jump at the consumer level to spur the move, and its lowerpower state and higher speed, combine with new interface are much needed changes, could make igpus that much better

the igpu excelerated render saves a lot of time in aftereffects could be made even better ... i hear the ivybridhge makes conversing/renders insanly fast 

 

that said the nvidia/amd fight is still going strong, just ordered a 7970 that comes with a stock clock of 1100  and oc memory on air for under 500 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131471&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-)  … thought about it along time almost got a nvidia 680 with an oc base of 1136 (the asus top O mold). looking forward … first new top end card video bought since the 9800 pro all those years ago, im using a 6850 right now, bought it for 129 last fall with 3 games and a 30 dollar rebate, 

 

ast note… after building a new tower for the first time in years for the vgz server last fall vie been all over tinkering and buying wanting to build another system… a few months before i bought it i had thought id never own another desk top just get a laptop as a replacement … funny how things work out