INTEL vs AMD

[PoPDragon]

Yea, I read that Intel dropped their support for RAMBUS a week or so ago. And I'm not a big RAMBUS fan. But I've yet to see a P4 DDR board that achieves the bench marks reached with the INTEL/RAMBUS combo. Maybe when they get DDR333 runnin good, (haven't read up on for a while) or a board that can make good use of it. I still have to believe all this DDR memory (the good stuff) is still priced higher than RAMBUS. It's like the worse of two evils, pay more for DDR or buy the unpopular RAMBUS that out performs it. Besides, an original purchase of 256Megs needs no upgrading. a single stick of 256Megs should be plenty to run anything I dicker around with.

Just lookin for a good, fast, solid comp.

 

[eddy05]

Yeah, though Rambus outperforms it, it only outperformed the DDR ram by a little. And with the **speed of DDR ram increasing, DDR ram will outperform the Rambus ram some day.

** I was trying to say about the DDR266, DDR333 think, but I don't know how to describe the increasing of the numbers, so I described as increasing speed. pardon.

 

[SuperCheetah]

It kind of saddens me to think of Rambus just going down the drain. It has real potential, but like I saw in an earlier post the greedy companies like Intel got to it and ruined its future. Personally, I'm happy with my DDR memory, but I've seen many reviews talking about how Rambus outperformed all other memory by a long shot.

I wonder what Rambus could have been..........

 

[PoPDragon]

If you are looking for the good stuff...

Read tomshardware review on the 256MB RDRAM, PC1066 533mgz system.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020225/index.html

 

[Molman]

Originally posted by SuperCheetah
It kind of saddens me to think of Rambus just going down the drain. It has real potential, but like I saw in an earlier post the greedy companies like Intel got to it and ruined its future. Personally, I'm happy with my DDR memory, but I've seen many reviews talking about how Rambus outperformed all other memory by a long shot.

I wonder what Rambus could have been..........

Rambus brough their own downfall, not intel. Also this brought abit of a chuckle -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/24415.html

 

[uncleel]

Originally posted by 3DS Crazyace
Customers are confused, ... I mean really, its nothing less than a scam

Got News? > AMD's Model Numbers, Intel query them
http://www.3dspotlight.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=546
AMD's Model Numbers Revisited
Will the Athlon XP's Success Force Intel -- and AMD -- To Clear CPU Confusion? By Vince Freeman
http://hardware.earthweb.com/main/article/0,,12108_989591,00.html

an alleged Intel marketing brochure is now making the rounds of the Internet, getting in a few jabs about how AMD saw no need for model numbers when it had the lead in megahertz, and accusing the Athlon XP team of underhandedly confusing consumers.

Intel may insist that clock speed is the best metric, but if so, what in heck is the difference between the 2.0GHz and 2.0AGHz Pentium 4s? Which pot is calling which kettle black.


Intel knows that the Athlon XP ratings are quite fair, and in many ways even understate comparative performance. What AMD's strange math means is that its processors below the XP 2000+ are actually a bit faster than their performance ratings would attest.

The Athlon XP 1500+ would beat the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 more soundly than the XP 2000+ ever could the 2.0GHz Pentium 4. This extra bang for buck from the lower-speed Athlon XPs is something Intel would probably not like consumers to know -- nor, maybe, would AMD, since those value-priced CPUs' profit margins are likely lower.

 

[boeingfixer]

Hey uncleel,

Just to let you know, I may be going from a 1600+ (1.4) to the 1800 or 1900+ this week. So another no sale for Intel.

You know I am just having fun with you and you I right uncleel ??

If I am out of line, I will stop and apologize??

 

[eddy05]

boeingfixer

"AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1600MHz @ 1600MHz "???

 

[boeingfixer]

Re: boeingfixer

Originally posted by eddy05
"AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1600MHz @ 1600MHz "???

No it's a 1.4 in the "real" world, the 1800+ is like 1.57 I believe.

Or are you talking about my rig spec's, if you are I have to change that.

 

[eddy05]

Yeah..

I went to you Anantech and saw that on the CPU space.

Anyway, this is mine

http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=17149

 

[Vehementi]

The 1800+ is actually 1.533 GHz...

 

[Cucumber]

Im an AMD user, and would never change!!
Here is a good article showing AMD vs Intel Northwood

Basically showing that an AMD clocked at 1.67ghz, is on par with a Pentium clocked at 2.2ghz (thats 530mhz faster)

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1574&p=4

Adios amigos

:hotbounce

 

[SuperCheetah]

All I'm going to say Cucumber is never say never. You never know what Intel has up their sleeve. Yes AMD is dominating the performance market now, but who knows what will happen in the next few years...

I'm an AMD man myself, so I'm pulling for the underdogs too

 

[boeingfixer]

And like I have said before, I am also with you two, I am always pulling for AMD !!

 

[Cucumber]

Another article here lads:

SHOWING MY T.BIRD 1.33 (not OC) is nearly on par with a 2ghz P4!!!!!!!
WOW!!

AMD RULE!!!!!!

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Hey folks, try to remember that this is only a poll, not a declaration of war.

 

[Riot]

AMD or INTEL?? Intel won the race to the 2ghz mark, but AMD's 1.8 was beating it in cetain aspects of performance. But, what most people don't realise is that INTEL processors have faster L1 cache which runs at the core speed of the processor, whereas AMD's does not. This is why INTEL is the superior processor. Anybody agree/disagree?

 

[uncleel]

I pass... beings we just talked it to death :dead: here -->
http://www.3dspotlight.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=339
http://www.3dspotlight.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=166
We've had so much discussion of this issue , that I don't care to participate now.

Originally posted by Phantasm66
I agree. I think the whole thing is getting a little tired to me. Buy what you can afford, and get the best that you can for the money that you have to spend. If that happens to be AMD then sobeit, if that happens to be Intel then sobeit.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.

 

[SleeperDC]

i always like AMD over Intel.
but right now, Intel 1.6G is the best choice over AMD

AMD right now is at the end of 0.18, very hot and can't OC much
while Intel is at it's 0.13, cool and very OC-able.

anyways, AMD rocks!