Pentium or AMD

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Pentium or AMD

Poll ended at Sun, 16. Mar 03, 01:05

Pentium
7
24%
AMD
22
76%
 
Total votes: 29

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Post by pumpkin_10 »

well so far to the egosoft fourum AMD is better (see votes) :D
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Post by KnightShark »

I have a XP2100 now, and plan to get the XP3200 this summer. Or whatever the fastest AMD chip is, with 333 FSB.
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Post by crabby »

AMD are faster and better for games but I use profesional software and I find AMD cannot be trusted. So for me it has to be INTEL. Plus AMD clock thier chips to the max thats why they run so hot.
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Post by Apothos »

pumpkin_10 wrote:well so far to the egosoft fourum AMD is better (see votes) :D
You misinterpret the poll - it just means they're more popular among the Egosoft posters. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Post by pjknibbs »

pumpkin_10 wrote:Pentium sucks , an AMD athlon could easily outrun any pentium
Nonsense. Even if you go by AMD's artificial and fake "P-number system" (e.g. how fast they think a P4 would have to be to match their processors), the FASTEST Athlon in production is a 2800+ (and good luck finding one of THOSE babies!), whereas P4s are up to 3.06GHz.

Fact is, I like AMD and wish them well, but they really dropped the ball big time with the Athlon--for a while it WAS the fastest PC processor on the planet, but AMD rested on their laurels and allowed Intel to overtake them. This may change when Hammer is released, but at the moment you simply can't say an Athlon will outrun any Pentium and expect people to take you seriously.
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Post by Rapier »

AMD's are simply much better value. Pentium will have the perfomance edge at the higher end for a while yet but AMD have given more bang for your bucks for several years now.
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Post by Rheuhll »

I wish AMD would hurry up with there new processor "the Clawhammer" or whatever they are going to call it.
It is going to blow away the Pentium 4. (if they ever get around to releasing it).

Waiting SUCKS! :evil:
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Post by pixel »

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/200302 ... ts-27.html

the above link gives a comprehensive benchmarking of over 60 CPUs available on the market.

As you can see at the moment a pentium chip is fastest.

But the amd chips are cheaper.

nuff said.

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