pazsion :
Intel advertises more and has a bandwagon that refuses to save money. Or buy a better product. These inteller's fail to see that amd has always been faster then intel. Amd has always offered more value. Amd has better features and more cache. Amd is the better deal, but somehow nobody is getting the message.
Without that support software will continue being optimized for intel and nvidia hardware. The main reason intel beats amd at all. Linux and other os's with amd usually out perform intel by x4. strange huh?
I'm buying amd for the rest of my life unless the company goes under.
It never should have been intel vs amd...But this is what consumers (ignorance and trolling)and retailers (high mark ups and biased false and negative advertiseing) forced on people.
There are more then 5 cpu producers...All of which could be competitive, if hardware and software developers made their stuff work with all of them, and not just 2 or 3. Motorola and cyrix both have multi-core cpu's out now. Why don't we see reviews and tests for these??? Oh, cause they put em in cellphones....ugh...::face palm::
I have to make a few points clear here.. depending on the architecture of the processors being compared, one processor might perform better than another depending on what is being run.. so in "Some" situations AMD was the better buy.
however the "Majority" of situations the Intel chips would outperform the AMD chips which justified the differences in the price.
the prices of the processors have been perfectly balanced, and priced exactly where they should be.
AMD was actually the one trying to Stretch the Truth to make themselves appear faster. for example their naming scheme with their processors. it seems shady and misleading to put "AMD 64 5000+" on a processor clocked at 2.6ghz. or 6000+ on a 3ghz.
AMD just released "bulldozer" a tweaked 4 core processor and is calling it a 8 core because they added hyper threading.
but yes i agree, in "some" situations, yea bulldozer might out perform some of the higher priced Intel processors in Winrar. but that's not what the "Majority" of users will be doing with their processor.
so i wouldn't call it a better product.
I don't want to come off as a Intel fan, because i'm not.. every build up to my last has been a AMD based system. but i'm not a fan boy either way. i buy what is best for my needs.. i wanted a computer i could use for the next 4 years, so i went Intel with this last build.. my first ever Intel build. i'm not excited or disappointed, i got what i paid for.