AMD or Intel...the age old question.

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Intel Still -> Gaming.
Unless Its A Celeron.
Then AMD Wins.
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( Just Some More Numbers To Back Me Up )
 
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48% on an athlon64 3000+ Venice core - here's his article on it http://www.bytesector.com/data/bs-article.asp?ID=529

As for your crazy crashes on all AMD cpus, I have a feeling it has something major to do with the software you work under. Maybe something with SSE2 instructions not operating correctly?
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Wow, those temps don't signify air cooling, if you ask me, but neither here nor there that's a wicked clock. I give that Venice core some serious props. As far as the AMD's I've used go, the only processes that they were running were standard Windows Installations (2000, XP, and Server 2003). I highly doubt that it was just coincidence as well.
 
How do you check what core you have?

edit: nevermind. I have a venice in my laptop. ;)
 
Going off of what I could afford... a Pent D 2.8ghz 820 Dual Core vs an Athlon 64 +3500 for the money and according to the Tom's Hardware CPU guide Intel was better for all around stuff and AMD did better at gaming but it's not like Intel couldn't do gaming. Am I wrong? :scared:
 
About the 'which runs cooler' argument. From my experience, Athlons used to run hotter han the equivalent Pentium. One chip that springs to mind is my poor old Athlon Thunderbird 1400. Until a couple of months I was still using at a gaming comp and the poor thing ran at about 55 deg. C idle. :scared:

Compared to our new (ahem) AthlonXP 2500+, which runs at 38deg. C idle. :) For comparison, my slot Pentium 3 550E runs at about 45 deg. C idle.
 
I got my new setup less than a month ago, never ever I even looked at a possible Intel option. Mind was set at first of a 3500+ Venice, then looked in the dual core direction since I'm an heavy heavy multi-tasking user and then settled on the entry line of the X2 with the 3800+ Manchester. lol so in the end I went with the 4400+ Toledo with 1MB X2 L2 Cache. I said to myself, just fawk it put the money once and you'll be done for the next 2-3 years. Best buy I ever did in my entire life, I was expecting alot given the price I payed but it just simply surpassed all my wishes. Idle at 28-29C and full load at 35C with a Zalman CNPS9500 with the rpm on the fan at 1700rpm (goes to like 2600rpm)!!! LMAO you can't even tell the damm hsf is acually spinning.

I have friends with Intel setups and it just doesn't even come close when you compare the processor in all the overall departments. When you look at gaming, encoding, applications, multi-tasking, temperatures all of that in a global evaluation you just clearly see that AMD is ahead of Intel. If you don't realize this well stick to your Intel cpus and enjoy life...maybe one day you'll see the light.
 

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