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fluster · 03-05-2005, 11:18 PM

If your into games AMD is the way to go. Certain 3d/media creation tasks run faster on Intel(often due to these programs using SSE3). This will all change soon though. AMD's next version of the A64 will support SSE3. The other HUGE change is Windows 64 bit edition. Early tests between Intels new 6 series(64 bit processors) and AMD's Athlon 64 on RC2 of WinXP 64 bit show a huge increase for the Athlon. The big thing is that the Athlon 64 was built to be a 64bit processor from the ground up whereas Intel's new 64 bit chips really just have 64bit support tacked on.

The thing I like the most is that people can't call AMD's chips "Clone's" anymore. Intels implementation of 64bit is basically a copy of AMD's.

Competition is good :-)

03-05-2005, 11:18 PM	#26 (permalink)
fluster Psycho Location: Down Under	If your into games AMD is the way to go. Certain 3d/media creation tasks run faster on Intel(often due to these programs using SSE3). This will all change soon though. AMD's next version of the A64 will support SSE3. The other HUGE change is Windows 64 bit edition. Early tests between Intels new 6 series(64 bit processors) and AMD's Athlon 64 on RC2 of WinXP 64 bit show a huge increase for the Athlon. The big thing is that the Athlon 64 was built to be a 64bit processor from the ground up whereas Intel's new 64 bit chips really just have 64bit support tacked on. The thing I like the most is that people can't call AMD's chips "Clone's" anymore. Intels implementation of 64bit is basically a copy of AMD's. Competition is good :-)