I love AMD. I have since they started being good. The K6 was passable, then the K7 came and blew the P3s away, as soon as I could I traded in my P3 600 and got a shiny new 'Athlon'.diglow~Flow wrote:
lol Cyborg you are a fanboy to.. "I love intel it is way better blah blah blah" FANBOY_NINJA FTW!!!!
EDIT: Fuck you got a lot of Intel Fanboys lmaO!
not only that i just dont see the performance from Intel like i do AMD.
Intel tried to fight back the only way they knew how - by cheating. Adding a stupid number of pipeline stages to the P4 did NOT increase it's performance (it actually reduced it), it simply allowed them to run at higher clock speeds, to dupe the consumer into thinking it was quick.
Intel have FINALY learnt from their mistakes. With the conroe architecture coming out just as AM2 is released AMD are in a lot of trouble. I wouldn't recommend an AM2 based system to anyone, high end - conroe, low end - 939 Athlon 64. Simple as that.
With regards to EVIL_STYXs comments, if you say your AMD system loads BF2 quicker than your core 2 duo, I believe you. That does not prove much unless you are running near identical test rigs with symetrical software installed. The fact that the core 2 duo performs so much better than the AMD alternatives in EVERY benchmark out there shows that you it is in fact faster. It also has an architecture that looks faster - I haven't done much in the way of chip design (basic 8-bit designs simillar to the z80 or 8085 are the best I've ever managed to produce or simualte) but I do have a reasonable understanding of how CPU architecture works and everything points to the core 2 duo being much better. Benchmarking is difficult to get right and can be quite complicated if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
EVIL_STYX I'd be very interested to see the exact specs of each system you're running, including data like free hard drive space etc. or even better a print out of 3Dmark results on each system. Without that, I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with everyone who knows anything about CPUs and say Intel are way out in front at the moment.