Advice pls: AMD, Athlon 64 X2 5600+ or Intel® Core™2 Duo E6550

[dpcdpc11]

hi guys...i'm new in this forum.. glad to be here... i want to buy my self a new box and i have a dilema in chosing the CPU... should i go AMD or Intel...
and i found 2 CPU one from AMD and one from Intel at the same price... but i was wondering which one has the highest perfomance?? and maybe you could help me out to make up my mind... the 2 CPUs are:
AMD, Athlon 64 X2 5600+ F 2.8GHz, L2 Cache Size (KB) 1024, System Bus 2000 MHz
and
Intel® Core™2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz 4MB

hope you can help me out here guys...
thanks in advanced!

 

[Rik]

Theres plenty of info to be found with google.

 

[dpcdpc11]

i know that... but it's all technical stuff that i don't understand... cause both cpu are at the same price i think they are both good... but from your own experience which one do you recommend??

 

[Rik]

If you have a look at my system specs you will see i have no experience with either processor.

 

[Fragrant Coit]

Link to Toms CPU Charts:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html

 

[dpcdpc11]

thanks soooo verry much man!!! that was just what i needed!!!!

 

[Fragrant Coit]

You want to compare them "across the board", there's a heap of different benchmarks they've thrown at them there - maybe look at what you do the most - game, burn etc etc and see what's best suit you.

Generally the core2's outperform the AMD's, but AMD are releasing a new line up shortly, so expect the price of the current processors to drop whilst they quit stock.

I've always preferred AMD's, but you can't argue with benchmarks!