While there are many chip makers, Intel and AMD are the top two and almost everyone has heard of them. So which brand do you prefer - Intel or AMD?

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Ooh, this is an unfair question Ash! I would love to pledge my allegiance to AMD, as I have been using their chips for quite some time (and still am), but with the release of the Core 2 Duo CPU's, I'd be more inclined to say Intel. I'll have to give this one some thought...

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but dont amd do a dual core aswell not sure but i think i read it somewhere

Well, the point of my post wasn't that Intel makes dual-core CPU's now where as AMD does not--they've both been making dual-core CPU's since Intel's Pentium-D CPU's and AMD's Opterons, and Intel even has a quad-core CPU out. However, the point was that the technology Intel released with the newest line of CPU's--their Core 2 Duo CPU's--puts any AMD technology to shame right now. I believe the only AMD CPU to even match the performace of the C2D in some benchmarks is the fx-72. Other than that, nothing really comes close on stock speeds (or even overclocked in most cases). The architecture of the C2D is much more advanced than Intel chips used to be--I think that until the C2D was released, in one clock cycle and AMD chip could perform 9 calculations whereas the most efficient Intel chip could only perform 6--that's why AMD was on top for so long. But no longer. I think that the current estimates are that AMD chips can do about 10 calculations in one clock cycle while the C2D's can do 15 or 20 (perhaps I'm a bit off, but that's the gist). So that's why I'd lean towards Intel right now--they make the better CPU. They're a bit on the expensive side right now, but things will probably change when AMD releases their new CPU technology late this year.

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AMD all the way for me :-)

You made this same poll a while back. On page 3.

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considering my computer right now is running an AMD chip, this is hard to say. but right now if i was to build a computer, intel hands down lol. hopefully AMD comes up with a good processor soon. but right now...INTEL FTW

Whoops, so I have. Interesting though how the results are a lot less even after Intel have released their Core Duo line of CPUs.

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AMD. They held the processor war lead for years only to lose it temporarily to Intel. As soon as their new Quad Core comes out AMD will again be on top of Intel. I'd take my AMD Anthlon X2 over a Core 2 Duo any day.

yeahh...AMD will hold up but for the time being Intels winning. ive always been an AMD fan but i know that the core 2 duo is better than the ATHLON -not anthlon X2

I must admit i have always liked AMDs over Intels.

AMDs often appeared to be the cheaper solution, and when they released the 64bit CPUs i thought they would have taken the leap before Intel.

But then came Intel with the core 2 duos. I personally havn't gotten my hands on one of these yet, but from what i have heard, they provide quality overclocking ability, much better than that of the AMD x2s, and run cooler (when not overclocked).

So i decided to give Intel the tip

AMD CPU's are much prefered for gaming. I know a guy, Travis, is eighth best gamer in world, he'll tell you that AMD have better thread handling, RAM management, FSB speed etc and even AMD's latest Sempron processors are to be shipped with an AMAZING 2MB of L2 Cache and with release of new model Opteron processors, for AMD, things can only get better. AMD for sure!

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The e6600 C2D has 4mb of L2 cache. I think Intel all the way. The C2D are better than pretty much everything AMD has. And if that isn't enough, Intel has C2Q and C2E. So I say Intel FTW

Yeah, but the C2D is a high range Dual Core chip. The Sempron is a bog standard x86-64 chip.

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Intel all the way......Abosolutely no complaints here.