Just bought an AMD 64 4000+, fingers crossed its good

Intel Core 2 Duo - (complete PC available in the "For Sale" section as it's unused.......hint, hint, hint...

Intel Centrino 1.7 in the lapdog.

Used to be a loyal AMD fan-boy, but the Core Duo/Core 2 Duo architecture raises the bar while lowering the temps.

AMD all the way!

Got an Athlon at the moment, but its knocking ona bit now, suppose I should invest in a faster one! AMD are supposed to be faster than their intel equivalents though aren't they?

I used to be a big fan of AMD but have recentley jumped ship to Intel as I now have a Apple Mac

AMD all the way!

Got an Athlon at the moment, but its knocking ona bit now, suppose I should invest in a faster one! AMD are supposed to be faster than their intel equivalents though aren't they?

At present core2 duo is best bang for your buck. Depends if you want a new one now or want to wait and see what AMD come out with in the not too distant future.

AMD all the way!

Got an Athlon at the moment, but its knocking ona bit now, suppose I should invest in a faster one! AMD are supposed to be faster than their intel equivalents though aren't they?

Used to be the case, but the Core archictecture is a complete re-design rather than a development on P4........(actually, it takes it's cues from a branch of the P3 architecture, but it's much much better)

AS a perspective, my Core 2 Duo rig (1.86ghz OC'd to 2.3, substantially outperforms a Pentium 4 940 3.0Ghz in 3DMark 05, with all other hardware being identical........

I've never heard of it tbh....

It's the new intel chip to replace the pentium.

Much much better oerformance per MHz and per watt.

Always been AMD, but this new core duo jobbie sounds ace. From what i've been reading lately the base core duo chip with some slight overclocking will perform on a par with AMD's current fastest offering. Very good for only

I've had quite a few computers..

• ZX-80
  
• ZX-81
  
• Spectrum
  
• Sinclair QX - Remember them ?
  
• Commodore C64
  
• Amstrad PC
  
• Various MESH intel based PC's
  
• Couple of MESH AMD based PC's
  
• 5 Selfbuild PC's - All AMD
  
• Centrino Lappy
  
• Centrino Duo Lappy
  

Although I'm about to buy an iMac, and may build a small PC for the bedroom to watch TV/DVD's and stream my music - that will be c2d

AMD forever!

AMD Athlon Xp 2500+ @ 1,83 Ghz

Well in the thunderbird days I was amd all the way...far cheaper per cycle. Before I enjoyed pentium and some stuff before the zx81; although I never had a zx81, I had a ti64 . Used some of my old mans stuff to break me in, some of which is still in the shed under the tape and 5 1/4" floppy disks.

I've since returned to the intel fold...reminds me I need to start folding up on the quad

Fed up of chasing the latest cycle, time was it mattered, now it really does not, my old palm top with PIII 800 and 256 mb of ram on a clean build copes with mail and web. Not regretted stepping of the self build conveyor by going to mac's, at least not yet anyway...now where's my dam insert key...

I have a P4 540 (3.2GHz with Hyper Threading), and think its great. I was a die-hard AMD fan, previously having an Athlon 3400+.

The P4 seems to run much cooler, can only be a plus.

Looking at processor prices, there always seems to be a clear winner in the "optimum performance for best price" stakes, where the next processor up offers little improvement in performance for a substantial jump in price.

Next PC will be C2D. The motherboard I've just replaced supports it, so would be the logical upgrade for me.

I'm an AMD person, purely because when I turned AMD, the Athlon (Slot A) had just come out and trounced everything else with its FPU. Certainly a change from the K5 and K6 which couldn't keep up...

Been AMD since, and I thought about c2d but haven't changed yet. Also, AMD are now releasing their energy efficient CPUs to compete with c2d, at least in the power consumption stakes.

The next two years will be interesting though. Anyone been to ATI's website today?

I'm an AMD person, purely because when I turned AMD, the Athlon (Slot A) had just come out and trounced everything else with its FPU. Certainly a change from the K5 and K6 which couldn't keep up...

The FPU on the Intel chips has always been the selling point. IIRC the Slot A boards had faster FPU than the Pentium and possibly the PII, but certainly not the Pentium Pro and the PIII.

All a bit of fun anyway as everything these days is more than fast enough.

Just bought a Core 2 Duo E6600, seem good

As said, most processors are more than up to the job where most people (myself included) just do a bit of word processing/spread sheet work, internet, watch the odd dvd, and view/print digital photos...

So it all seems quite irrelevant really, other than an obsession to have the best available!

Voted for AMD to INTEL as Ive just bought a E6600 Core 2 chip and its running faultlessly at 3.51Ghz (each core of course). Amazingly quick for high end photo editing etc.

This rig replaces my AMD X2 4400 rig and it seems to be in a different league.

Lee

Voted for AMD to INTEL as Ive just bought a E6600 Core 2 chip and its running faultlessly at 3.51Ghz (each core of course). Amazingly quick for high end photo editing etc.

This rig replaces my AMD X2 4400 rig and it seems to be in a different league.

Lee

What speed was it originally?

The E6600 is a 2.4GHz dual core processor as standard. So effectively Im getting an additional 1.1+ ghz overclock from each core... and its still creeping up very slowly

Realistically, with the cooling setup I have in place it isnt going to allow me to hit the 4ghz I had in mind originally but im realistically now hopeing to see 3.7 from each core.

Lee

Well bugger you all im still plodding along with my 1Ghz G4 PowerBook :p

untill i can afford a new 2CoreDuo MacBookPro anyway lol

Intel P4 3.5GHz.

Got a 3700+ that I've had for some time now..

Oced to 3ghz though

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ on a Gigabyte motherboard

This is my third AMD cpu, been using this for some time now and very happy with it. First one was 500 MHz K6? then 1200 Duron.

AMD

Laptop has a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 (and thus horrible battery life)

Main rig at home has an Athlon XP2400+ @ 2.0Ghz soon to be replaced with an Intel Core2Duo 6600

Other rig ("the bitch") has an AthlonXP 1800+ running at some frequency...