AMD works with games?

[OrenG]

My dad thinks that AMD processors will not work with my games for whatever stupid reason, is this true? He told me tales of someone being pissed off because their game wouldn't run (would crash) on a machine with an AMD processor. I'm planning on running an AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz on an ASRock M3A770DE AM3 motherboard, with Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 and a SAPPHIRE 100296HDMI Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3.

I'm planning on Running Source engine games (hl2, cs:s gmod, dod:s) and Golden Source Games (hl, hl😱p, hl:bs, cs 1.6, dod) and Doom 3 at the highest resolution possible.

 

[andy5174]

ROFL! You must be at least a half troll because your dad is. :lol:

 

[warmon6]

I will quote a post that was in response to you in Dec 2008.

[:mousemonkey:5]

 

[enzo matrix]

The AMD Athlon II x4 you intend to get is the only quad core for under $100. The best intel has for that price is their pentium clarkdale 2.8GHz, which will probably be equal to or a bit worse than the phenom II x2 555. Intel's cheapest quad is about $150. Of course, it will perform better than the Athlon II x4 but it's competing with the Phenom IIs in the $150 range.

I currently use that CPU in a budget build for gaming paired with an older radeon 3870. The extra cores come in handy for games like GTA4 and Dragon Age. Hopefully it will also help me keep up with Mass Effect 2. I overclocked mine to 3.2GHz, stock cooling, stock voltage. Max temp under load: 50C. Idle: 23-25C.

AMD gained a reputation around 2005 for their Athlon 64s before Intel came out with their core 2s. The Athlon 64s were especially reputable as being better for gaming. Today, intel has a lead with their core i5s and core i7s but all of AMD's cpus are priced under $200, still making them directly comparable to their intel counterparts- arguably, they have better performance per price under $200.

Honestly though, you should be more worried about your graphics card than your CPU for gaming.

 

[warmon6]

Actually, I suspect that it was at least as much due to crappy chipsets: back when I was writing Windows drivers, probably 90+% of reported game crashes caused by hardware (as opposed to software bugs) were on AMD systems with third-party chipsets which weren't driving the bus correctly. It was so bad that when when I saw a bug reported on an AMD system which we'd never seen on Intel my first expectation was that it was probably the chipset rather than the driver.

hmm.... never thought about the chipset. maybe that was the problem with my last computer. idk. that was like 6 years ago.

 

[jitpublisher]

I dont even try to correct my dad when he tries to talk tech to me. I just nod alot and say right, right.

I know how that is!

 

[Malovane]

Considering i-7, i-5, and i-3 are more of a clone of AMD's architecture than the other way around at this point, I'd be more worried that Intel got it wrong...

But no, Intel ported over AMD's x86/64 instruction set just fine, and can run everything it's AMD forefather can. Tell your dad not to worry about his Intel processors crashing too much when running all the new programs based on that instruction set.

 

[Cryslayer80]

I know how that is!

Damn it and I thought it was only me...

 

[apache_lives]

ummmmm there have been alot of times where games run BETTER with an AMD procesor/platform, and nearly all of the time you get better performance for your dollar with AMD (bang for your buck) etc

In the past AMD had issues thanks to VIA causing compatibility issues with hardware and software but they have there own platform these days - no dramas there.

As for reliability/stability - THG did the test a few years back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BH0K13qKrg - AMD came out ontop there too, not saying AMD is perfect, they have had there issues

Things have warrantys for a reason, and currently the honnest truith between them is this: got the budget for an i7? then buy one, otherwise buy AMD, simple.

You want to put your hard earnt cash to good use - if its limited then its more then likely AMD will offer the better deal etc

Dont listen to Intel/AMD fanboys and dont stick to brands - they dont kiss your ass, why kiss theres?

 

[apache_lives]

Oh and that cheap AMD knock-off comment? EMT64 for Intel is a cheap knock-off for AMD64, go to command prompt on yout Intel rig with Vista/Win7 64-bit and see what the command "echo %processor_architecture%" comes up with - AMD64

Friggin fanbois

 

[core i7 ownage]

I have AMD Phenom X4 945 running at 3.0 GHZ with Ati Radeon HD 5850, it works on all games very well, not even single hardware related crashes.

 

[4Ryan6]

Some games run better on the AMD platform some on the Intel platform, look over benchmark reviews.

The same thing goes for ATI and Nvidia, it really depends on who the software designers were favoring when they wrote the game.

Whether the overall top end performance is better on either platform or not, doesn't really matter much today, because most systems today exceed the specs to play they game in the first place, either platform games just fine.

However there are always exceptions to the rule.