Re: Help me too choose AMD or Intel ???


"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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> "serge calderara" <sergecalderara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>> dear all,
>>
>> I plan to by a new system for home
>> I am a professionanl in software developement ad I would like a computer
>> on
>> which I will be able to do programming and Multimedia stuff like picture
>> edition or video editing.
>>
>> Iknow the reputation of intel processor, they are really good annd fully
>> proven wth microsoft platform but of course depending of configuration
>> you
>> request they are expensive
>>
>> n an other hand I have AMD procecessor system on which I have no
>> experience
>> at all and would like to help me in that.
>>
>> The only thing I have notice in configutation comparison AMD price is
>> half
>> of Intel
>> but wht about performance and compatibility. Especially with the next
>> coming
>> longhorn
>>
>
> Both manufacturer's CPUs work as advertised and will work great. More
> important than the brand of CPU is the brand of RAM, motherboard, and
> power supply. For RAM I use Kingston, Crucial is also good. I personally
> like Gigabyte and Intel motherboards but ASUS is also a good brand. I just
> don't get as good a price on them :-). I use Acepower power supplies. Stay
> away from cheap ones of any brand. Go for the medium to higher priced
> ones. Those three components will make more of a difference to the
> stability and enjoyment of your system than the CPU. Video cards are
> important as well but they are harder to know what is good. The top
> chipsets are NVIDIA and ATI. ATI makes their own cards as well as
> licencing the chipset to other manufacturers. NIVIDIA doesn't manufacturer
> cards themselves. Don't buy a cheap no name clone video card even if it
> uses a good chipset. Again price is often an indication of quality.
>
> Kerry
>
>
Intel EM64T CPU's do not support on-die memory controller, nor do they
support Hypertransport.
Intel is producing it's EM64T processors by adding the 64 bit extensions to
the P4 architecture, and they are still hopelessly hobbled to a Northbridge
chipset for communications to the AGP/PCI/PCI-e/RAM on the motherboard. This
FSB speed can be either 533 or a clock doubled 400 (which Intel advertises
as 800MHz, but gets nowhere near that). With Hypertransport, the AMD
processor can communicate with other devices on the motherboard at 2GHz, and
communications are duplex, as opposed to simplex for Intel. The
Hypertransport protocol allows data to be executed "out of order", as it is
a high speed packed based communications protocol.

Other factors to consider: If you buy and AMD Athlon64 939-pin based
motherboard, you can upgrade to an AMD X2 dual core chip when you
want...since the crossbar, memory controller, dual L2 cache are all on the
CPU, a simple BIOS upgrade will allow a drop in solution for X2. Can't do
that with Intel.

Intel processors produce prodigious amounts of heat. Heat is a significant
factor in hardware problems, as well as wasting electricity. That is why
Sony, NEC, and others sell their systems with water-cooling; it's the only
way to manage the ferocious heat that the newer P4's produce.

Intel is currently so far behind the game when it comes to producing 64 bit
CPU's, yet everyone seems to continue to defend them. Every review I have
read that pits Intel EM64T against AMD Athlon64, the Athlon wins (by a large
margin).

If you are savvy, do research, and put you money where the speed, power and
value are, the only answer is AMD. Perhaps in a year or two, once Intel
begins selling newer designed chips instead of re-vamped P4J CPUs, they may
again be "king of the hill". But for now, the smart money is on AMD.

bobby


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