Whatever happened to Intel?

December 9th, 2005, 08:32 AM

For years now I haved used and loved Intel CPU's, and have kinda shunned AMD along the way.
However, nowadays Intel doesnt seem to be doing anything new with its chips (and if they do do anything groundbreaking it costs a absolute fortune), yet AMD have stormed ahead with loads of new stuff at good prices.

I recently OC'd my P4 to try and squeeze a little more life out of it before I upgrade, and when I do upgrade, I'll be swapping out my board and opting for a AMD Athlon 64 CPU, and a nforce4 board (probabally the new DFI one). I feel a little dissappointed to be even considering ditching Intels as my choice chip, but they just arent putting out what AMD are....so, I'll go with the flow.

December 9th, 2005, 04:29 PM

Ah well I feel the same way. I was Intel fan for years now... but in the last year/two, AMD is beating the crap of Intel in the CPU area. It has become ugly to see benchmarks (and king od boring since you always know who's the winner) between same AMD and Intel CPU's.
Intel is still holding the mobile and server arean.. and not to mention the mbo chipsets.
But I never expected that AMD could so much jeopardize Intel with it's CPU's.

My opinion about the board... DFI is excellent choice, but if you need more pci, and pci-x slots available meybe you should think about other alternatives, like msi,gigabyte or epox

ServerKing · December 18th, 2005, 05:51 AM

I was the same way was diehard Intel for quite along time now my new computer I am bulding we be a AMD64. I just think Intel became too relaxed much like EA is in making Madden every year with no improvements but eye candy.

Cool Barn · December 18th, 2005, 01:39 PM

I agree with what everyone has said so far. But remember guys Intel are a business and the most important thing to them is their bottom line. They have such good marketing mixed with an indelible brand name/reputation that they still make more money from processor sales than AMD even though they sell an inferior product.

Gamers/enthusiasts make up what -- five percent of their market? The bulk of all new systems are sold by OEMs. As long as Dell and the others continue to pimp Intel at the expense of AMD then Chipzilla doesn't have anything to worry about.

I am glad that AMD are making such great products, and I do hope they keep stealing more and more of Intel's market share. If we didn't have that competition then we'd probably all be looking forward to playing with our brand new 1GHz Pentium IIIs that are coming out this Christmas!

December 18th, 2005, 06:48 PM

INTEL always lived on their repuataion and "beginners" thinking INTEL is the shit because they see them on TV. And that DELL had a contract and only sold intel-procc's util now probaly heklped alot.. But DELL says they wont sign a new contract with them and they are now starting to sell AMD-procc in their computers, hell yeah!

amd for the win I would say.. heat problems etc is a myth, never ahd it and have ran AMD the last 4 years

RefleX · December 18th, 2005, 07:47 PM

First pc was a 1.6Ghz Intel and since then ive used a 2400+ Amd and now on a 3200+ amd will soon be on a 3800+ AmdX2 what can I say but the are rock solid cpu's

jbruneau · December 27th, 2005, 06:56 PM

I moved from Intel to AMD about 5 years ago, just after the Barton core was released. For the price and performance (plus 1/2 the heat emitted from the CPU), I am going to go AMD all the way, and I am going to sell AMD to my customers all the way as well!

I will still build an Intel system if they really persist, but I am not going to recommend Intel anymore. Intel got greedy, now they have lost their focus and their customers.

supasila · December 27th, 2005, 07:01 PM

excuse my spam but..... INTEL SUCKS ASS!~!!

**Regeneration** · December 27th, 2005, 10:38 PM

My latest Intel CPU was P3 then I bought AMD Barton because of the price and performance. Intel should drop their prices asap or they will lose more people. I'm very happy with AMD64, cheap and nice performance in games. I will keep using AMD until Intel will drop their prices and offer us something REALLY GOOD.

Swiftyy · December 27th, 2005, 11:21 PM

The thing with intel is that the technology they have rite now isnt enough to develop a great new CPU, the technology isnt there for them. The reason i know this is that my friend works for intel and he's been complaining about it. Intel doesnt have the technology to push through to the next generation processor just yet. The technology only allows them to dual core, which isnt all that great but thats what its allowing rite now.

as for AMD the overheating isnt really and issue anymore, before it was b/c of the way they made their chips, nowadays it is. My father's company was a partner with AMD and my dad knew the CEO of AMD in Thailand which makes the chips in its factory. When i was younger i got a chance to go there and watch them make chips and how they tested it. You would be shocked at their procedure LOL it was kinda sad but they have made tremendous progress now and are moving into the rite direction!!