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G_Lock · 09-24-2003, 01:30 AM

To be honest it is not at all surprising what Intel did. I mean if you were Intel, and you knew that your biggest competitor was getting ready to release a chip, that has been highly publicized, then you too would try to do whatever possible to downplay the new rival chip. As for price, if someone were going to spend whatever money was needed, and were going to decide between the top chips from either AMD or Intel, then there really is not much price difference. People say get the AMD chips because it is cheaper, but if you take a look, you will see the prices are about the same. And by highest I mean the Athlon 64FX-51 and the Intel P4 3.2 EE. I know that Intel has P4 3.6 EE chips, but I am trying to go with comprable here. Based on a review and test at THG, the P4 3.2 EE won 32 tests, while the 64FX-51 won 15 tests. So in that case looking strictly at benchmarks, one would want to buy the P4 chip. So the next thing to look at is price. Well the 64FX-51 price is $799 and the P4 chip is $849. So there is a $50 difference in price. But if you look at the price of some of the hardware that will be needed with each chip, you will see that first the Mobo for Athlon will be $229 while the Mobo for Intel will be $214, so that cuts the price difference from $50 to $35, then we take a look at memory. Assuming you want 1GB of memory, the price differs even there. Apparently the Athlon requires a special type of DDR 400 RAM. Therefore the price for 1GB for the Athlon is $450 while for the Intel it is $356. With that, you can clearly see that the Intel now wins in price comparison. And if you were to tell me that the AMD chip is 64 and the Intel chip is still 32, you are right. However, again looking at THG you can see that as of right now, there is no advantage for the 64bit since all the software is optimized for Intel and 32bit. So to be honest, if I had all kinds of money to spend, and I wanted to choose objectively between the best from Intel or AMD, it looks like Intel's is not only faster but also cheaper overall.

Man Intel really spoiled AMD's day.

G_Lock

P.S. All numbers were taken from article on THG.

09-24-2003, 01:30 AM	#12 (permalink)
G_Lock Tilted	To be honest it is not at all surprising what Intel did. I mean if you were Intel, and you knew that your biggest competitor was getting ready to release a chip, that has been highly publicized, then you too would try to do whatever possible to downplay the new rival chip. As for price, if someone were going to spend whatever money was needed, and were going to decide between the top chips from either AMD or Intel, then there really is not much price difference. People say get the AMD chips because it is cheaper, but if you take a look, you will see the prices are about the same. And by highest I mean the Athlon 64FX-51 and the Intel P4 3.2 EE. I know that Intel has P4 3.6 EE chips, but I am trying to go with comprable here. Based on a review and test at THG, the P4 3.2 EE won 32 tests, while the 64FX-51 won 15 tests. So in that case looking strictly at benchmarks, one would want to buy the P4 chip. So the next thing to look at is price. Well the 64FX-51 price is $799 and the P4 chip is $849. So there is a $50 difference in price. But if you look at the price of some of the hardware that will be needed with each chip, you will see that first the Mobo for Athlon will be $229 while the Mobo for Intel will be $214, so that cuts the price difference from $50 to $35, then we take a look at memory. Assuming you want 1GB of memory, the price differs even there. Apparently the Athlon requires a special type of DDR 400 RAM. Therefore the price for 1GB for the Athlon is $450 while for the Intel it is $356. With that, you can clearly see that the Intel now wins in price comparison. And if you were to tell me that the AMD chip is 64 and the Intel chip is still 32, you are right. However, again looking at THG you can see that as of right now, there is no advantage for the 64bit since all the software is optimized for Intel and 32bit. So to be honest, if I had all kinds of money to spend, and I wanted to choose objectively between the best from Intel or AMD, it looks like Intel's is not only faster but also cheaper overall. Man Intel really spoiled AMD's day. G_Lock P.S. All numbers were taken from article on THG. Last edited by G_Lock; 09-24-2003 at 01:36 AM..