When I was building a lot more machines I was really upset because of Intel's business practices (essentially using their market share to disallow AMD stock at distributors buy forcing contracts on them in order to get pricing equivalent to other companies). The things they are finally getting sued by AMD over now. I long ago decided I was never buying an Intel unless AMD screwed me over and I've been much happier for it.
They cost a lot less usually and perform really well all around. Try and find a gamer that doesn't use AMD instead of Intel (there aren't that many). Anyway, from a little more intelligent standpoint, I would suggest having a look at hardocp.com for some real benchmarking on how things are comparitively. It is a very informative and unbiased site from what I can tell. I've spent the last 6 years of my life eating my breakfast with it along with all the CF stuff too hehe. Good luck, Mike. On Sunday 29 January 2006 5:38 pm, Jake McKee wrote: > Well, at this point I've pretty much decided on an Alienware (finally!! > yeah!!) and they have an Intel option and an AMD option. The price looks > fair similar, so I'm just wondering if there's anything that I won't be > able to do with an AMD, or if there's any performance increases for > things like gaming with AMD. > > Matt Woodward wrote: > >Bottom line: doesn't matter one iota. You'll tend to get a bit better > >performance for your buck out of AMD, but personally I'd get the > >machine/brand/features you like and whichever chip is in there will > >work just fine. In other words I wouldn't choose the machine based on > >the chip in it. > > > >Matt > > > >On 1/29/06, Jake McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I hope y'all don't mind, but I was hoping that I could pick some other > >>tech brains who likely do many of the same kinds of tasks I do. > >> > >>I'm about to buy a new PC and need to decide AMD vs. Intel. For the most > >>part, I put my PCs to work doing: > >> > >>- ColdFusion dev > >>- Gaming (with the latest greatest games) > >>- Standard email/Office/Web > >>- Some video editing > >>- Some podcast/audio recording > >>- Graphic design via Photoshop > >> > >>Pretty standard geek fare, really. > >> > >>Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on AMD vs. Intel for someone like > >> me? > >> > >>Thanks! > >>Jake > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Reply to DFWCFUG: > >> [email protected] > >>Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > >> http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > >>List Archives: > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ > >>DFWCFUG Sponsors: > >> www.HostMySite.com > >> www.teksystems.com/ > > > >-- > >Matt Woodward > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.mattwoodward.com > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Reply to DFWCFUG: > > [email protected] > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > >List Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ > > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ > >DFWCFUG Sponsors: > > www.HostMySite.com > > www.teksystems.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Reply to DFWCFUG: > [email protected] > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > List Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ > DFWCFUG Sponsors: > www.HostMySite.com > www.teksystems.com/ _______________________________________________ Reply to DFWCFUG: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list List Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ DFWCFUG Sponsors: www.HostMySite.com www.teksystems.com/
