AMD are better processors for a few reasons:

Price - AMD chips are significantly cheaper than Intel in most cases.
Power Consumption - AMD processors tend to use much less power than an Intel equivalent.
Temperature - AMD chips often run cooler than Intel, so you don't have to use such large fans. This means the computer might run quieter too.

There are a couple of disadvantages though. For instance, Intel's HT (Hyperthreading Technology) is supposed to be excellent. This HT makes the processor act as though it is two processors, making multiple-thread calculations possible and increasing performance under certain conditions. The new Intel Dual-Core processors have two processing units inside on chip - they have also included HT in these, making the computer "appear" to have 4 processors. I've obviously not tested these chips, but if they're good, they will most likely blow the AMDs away.

... Unless AMD come up with an HT equivalent and implement it on their chips. Then we'd have to see test results to make a comparison!

using amd based laptop now, but if given a choice to turn back time, i would have gotten myself an intel based laptop.

Desktop I am using Amd but for my lapto I am using Intel..best of both worlds..

my desktop currently using AMD because better performance with affordable price.

laptop...ppl usually go for Intel
desktop... ppl usually go for AMD

This thread is so wrong on so many levels. :S

Since when C2D have HT?

I thought they dont use HT for C2D.

erm... since when AMD's advantage is power consumption???

even their desktop CPU consumes more power than Intel's...

Intel would ve blown AMD away if not for anti-monopoly laws...

is TS still in the days of Athlon64 vs Pentium 4???

This post has been edited by astria: Sep 7 2008, 05:40 PM

Thats what i think.

C2D got use HT meh?

I thought it goes the way of dinosaur adi.AMD still use Hyper Transport,if im not wrong.

for light user like me, i go for amd..
amd is cheaper than intel..

Intel design their CPU for the laptop market first, then slowly modify for the various market (desktop, workstation, etc) thus explaining their relatively low TDP...

AMD, on the other hand, is desktop first, then modify to other markets... got performance, but TDP is relatively higher as well...

however AMD's biggest advantage is graphic... Radeon HD 3200 can pwn all Intel's integrated graphic... even with a low end graphic card like 8400M or 9300M, AMD has got Hybrid Graphic... pwn Intel again... going SLI on Intel platform??? AMD has got XGP... pwn Intel again, and cheaper with less heat (from graphic card) also...

that's y Intel needs it's own dedicated grpahic solution, ie Larabee...

This post has been edited by astria: Sep 7 2008, 05:58 PM

Copy Pasta sir? HT technology was at P4 era


Wrong perception u have there

AMD for... budget users... pretty good price/performance ratio...

but u want higher performance??? that's Intel's playground...

Mind showing me more about Intel's graphics processor?

I want to know more about Larabee.Will it be as good as nVidia and ATi's top end cards?

hmm, not much info is available now....

wat i know is that Larabee will use "Many Core" design... ie hundreds of x86 cores to render graphic and provide hardware acceleration... in the future we may have thousands or even millions of cores...

I read up some stuff but i dont understand the many core design.Isnt it the same as our current GC?

Whats a difference between current multicores and Larabee?

Intel is really going to compete on high end gaming.The end of crappy Intel integrated GC?

hmm, i think main difference is that Intel prefer to stick to it's roots, ie x86 architecture, instead of stream porcessors like Nvidia and ATi...

currently there are juz too little info to deduce anything... so let's juz wait and see...

Laptop
i heard so many AMD user complaint about overheat problem....
intel,quiet expensive but it more stable......seldom overheat problem....

Dekstop
been used both proc.
perfomance wise....almost same....
Intel Duo Core have more stability on load.....
AMD lesser in stability....

Whats the difference between x86 architecture and stream processor?

Hope you dont mind replying my questions.

Wikipedia is our good friend when it comes to these problems...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)

i myself dun know much either...

(it should be Larrabee, btw)

This post has been edited by astria: Sep 8 2008, 12:01 AM