AMD vs Intel choose

Death_Scythe27 · newbie! Joined: Mar 28, 2005 Posts: 32

ABit motherboards are meant to be more for gamers arent they and i am turning into 1 getting Radeon X800 XL that card OWNS played the latest Doom on it amazing Twisted Evil

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Is · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

to be honest with you i wouldn't buy anything but MSI or Asus motherboards right now... Asus is my first choice but right now they don't have many good A64 - PCI-E options =/

Abit, AOpen, ECS, Chaintech, etc etc are all much less reliable... they'll work but they won't last as long as the MSI and Asus boards.

Death_Scythe27 · newbie! Joined: Mar 28, 2005 Posts: 32

I found this one Is

www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=2077&category_id=252&manufacturer_id=0

This one is a little more in my price range it would cost $123 over there how about it plus it is easy to overclock or so a review i read said
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evofire · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:48 am Post subject:

ASUS actually does have a good board out, the A8N-E for S939 with NF4 Ultra chipset I think(I'm pretty sure it ain't SLI).

Is · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:18 am Post subject:

Death_Scythe27: I'd stay away from that one because of the VIA chipset... they're not very reliable.

I dunno what options you have in the UK but NewEgg has the Neo4-F for $89 + shipping and the Neo4 Platinum for like $150

evofire: really? how come i couldn't find that one the other day when i was pricing them... heh

emphie · newbie! Joined: Mar 08, 2005 Posts: 38

im an AMD user. and according to some amd is the best when it comes to gaming also the price is cheap

evofire · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject:

Is · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:

well, why go VIA when you can have nForce? Wink

and i was looking on the ASUS site for a board like that... but then we all know that the asus site sucks in navigatability (sp?)

evofire · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject:

For such a big company, the ASUS site sure does suck. And no, apparently the board is not listed on their site, but then there are shops stocking it.

I went with VIA because it was cheap, when I got this board, it was a fair amount cheaper than any NF2 board that was available. And I've seen some problems with certain ASUS NF2 boards, they were performing rather slowly for some absurd reason.

Is · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject:

i'm going NF4... *grin*
i should be getting my mobo after my NEXT pay cheque... in two weeks heh.
stupid insurance payments

evofire · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:52 am Post subject:

I'm going NF4 too *smiles*
Should get it in around a month, hopefully.

isamu_sagora · newbie! Joined: Aug 18, 2004 Posts: 45

i have the AMD 64 bits but i dont know its capailities. is there someone here that could inform me in that matter.
thanks
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dance2die · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 62

IMHO as one of the tech support person(at work), i prefer to go with Intel for servers and enduser machines.

It's due to the fact that Intel chips are more stable when it comes to the how long a computer should be left on.

Intel chips slows down the processor when the chip is about to get overheated while AMD chips don't.

But I go with AMD chips for my personal game machines since it's seems to run a bit faster(but it's not noticeable for most of peoeple) but i don't leave my computer on 24/7 so i don't have to deal with cpu overheating...

rsx_2001 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 27, 2005 Posts: 51

AMD as long as you have a nice cooling fan.

evofire · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

lol, Intel would probably need the nice cooling fan more than AMD does. Current A64 Winchester puts out less heat than the AXP Bartons while the Prescotts are well in the hundreds.