Intel or AMD

Is this even a question anymore?

Ive always been an intel fanboy anyway

Gotta love my prescott, hottest CPU ever made haha, I had to disable the thermal cutoff, because it keep switching itself off at 85c... now i let it ride up to about 95c in summer

95c for a cpu? Holy balls

Normally its around 65-70c, but when i have photoshop, dreamweaver, flash builder and everything else open, in summer it gets HOT, dont worry, i have plenty of fans on it and it can actually take it lol

Thats insane temps

How long have you been running it that hot?

I freak out if my cpu hits 70c under load

Years lol, i can get it to drop down quite a bit when i change the antec silver, but I cannot be bothered.

Im actually swapping out my thermal paste next week

Ordered some Arctic Silver

I hope your not one of them crazy ppl that like to put loads of paste on?

Remember, no more than a grain of rice

No way I use the appropriate amount. I apply a little dab in the middle and let the heatsink do the rest.

HEHEHEHE

Damn thats pretty bad

I want to support AMD. I really do, I don't want Intel domination. Or AMD domination either.

But I don't see much of a point in buying their CPUs for now. Their video cards are all right.

if I were building a pc on a budget I'd go AMD any way, most games depend on a good gpu anyway outside of very few intensive games where AMD can play pretty decent too.


if I could do it again,idk,I'd prob get the i7 since it'll age very gracefully in the future due to the 8 threads,while probably using a fraction of the heat/power of an AMD chip,but on a budget I'd get an AMD APU and play on only 720p and be merry, I'm honestly happy with xbox/ps3 level graphics.


like how cheap bottom of the barrel cards can play on 720p pretty good,soon that'll be the case for 1080p ,I personally don't ever see myself bothering with a resolution of more than 1080p. Intel built in graphics can already do 1080p 30fps from stuff I've read, and their hd4000 could play stuff at 720p, which is what I did for a month.



at the end, if you have the money to play,sure intel is better,but on a budget I'd go AMD APU