arnuld
Disciple
I am starting this thread only to shred the heat-myth behind which most stupid (or fool) Intel users stand. I am not syaing Intel users are stupid, well most computers users are stupid anyway hyeah: :
I am running my AMD Athlon 64 1.8 GHz from last 2.5 years without any problem. I don't know why most guys have issues with AMD. I even couried this box from Punjab to here in Hyderabad, 2000 KM and the courier did so poor handling that when I opened my cabinet , it was broken from both sides along with dents in different plces. The front side of cabinet was totally broken and won't even stand properly. Even after all this I just bought a new cabinet and it is still working except of the PSU that borke down after a lot of use. I even ran it for 4 non-stop days and nights, 24x7 and it never broken down.
These days with newer PSU, because of job, I keep my system running whole night and then Fri-(evening)-Sat-Sun-Mon-(morning) I hardly stop it for 20 minutes at maximum and I don't see any heat problems with this. On average intel CPUs run at temperature of 45 centigrade while AMD has 55. 10 degrees don't matter much to me. Intel exerts exorbitant prices on its CPUs which perfom same as as AMD. I am not saying AMD produces no heat, well they produce more heat as compared to Intel and then I don't see any reason for bitnching and moaning when that heat can be throws away with 1-2 extra fans on yours. In my case I only one fan thats on CPU and as I said I only get 10 degree of extra temperature as compared to Intel. I think its a better deal.
My friend recently bought 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo of Intel. I am not sure but it is called E8400 and guess what, during booting it takes same amount of time as my 3 years old 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon 64. 2nd, the the VGA performance is poor because Intel does not behave well with Linux community in case of drivers. So he is using partially poor graphic card drivers. The performance does not depend only on hardware. It depends a lot of what kind of software you run , I use Arch Linux all the time.
My another colleague has 1 year old DG33FB mobo running on Core 2 Duo and most of times for general tasks (like watcing videos and playing songs, doing programming and searching on net, but not playing 3D games) it performs same as my mobo running on 400 MHz of 1 GB DDR1 RAM, while he has DDR2 1066 MHz of 3 GB RAM with intel G33 chipsset compared to my poor VIA graphics. Even with all this he still can not outperform me.
So, I suggest you to save your money and buy an AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz (forget tri and quads) along with 780G/SB700 (or SB750) chipset based mobo. See this thread for information.
I am running my AMD Athlon 64 1.8 GHz from last 2.5 years without any problem. I don't know why most guys have issues with AMD. I even couried this box from Punjab to here in Hyderabad, 2000 KM and the courier did so poor handling that when I opened my cabinet , it was broken from both sides along with dents in different plces. The front side of cabinet was totally broken and won't even stand properly. Even after all this I just bought a new cabinet and it is still working except of the PSU that borke down after a lot of use. I even ran it for 4 non-stop days and nights, 24x7 and it never broken down.
These days with newer PSU, because of job, I keep my system running whole night and then Fri-(evening)-Sat-Sun-Mon-(morning) I hardly stop it for 20 minutes at maximum and I don't see any heat problems with this. On average intel CPUs run at temperature of 45 centigrade while AMD has 55. 10 degrees don't matter much to me. Intel exerts exorbitant prices on its CPUs which perfom same as as AMD. I am not saying AMD produces no heat, well they produce more heat as compared to Intel and then I don't see any reason for bitnching and moaning when that heat can be throws away with 1-2 extra fans on yours. In my case I only one fan thats on CPU and as I said I only get 10 degree of extra temperature as compared to Intel. I think its a better deal.
My friend recently bought 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo of Intel. I am not sure but it is called E8400 and guess what, during booting it takes same amount of time as my 3 years old 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon 64. 2nd, the the VGA performance is poor because Intel does not behave well with Linux community in case of drivers. So he is using partially poor graphic card drivers. The performance does not depend only on hardware. It depends a lot of what kind of software you run , I use Arch Linux all the time.
My another colleague has 1 year old DG33FB mobo running on Core 2 Duo and most of times for general tasks (like watcing videos and playing songs, doing programming and searching on net, but not playing 3D games) it performs same as my mobo running on 400 MHz of 1 GB DDR1 RAM, while he has DDR2 1066 MHz of 3 GB RAM with intel G33 chipsset compared to my poor VIA graphics. Even with all this he still can not outperform me.
So, I suggest you to save your money and buy an AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz (forget tri and quads) along with 780G/SB700 (or SB750) chipset based mobo. See this thread for information.