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PC Nerds: AMD or Intel?

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Doggerman25

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I have always been an Intel kind of guy but recently I have wanted to try an AMD build. Curious on what your go to brand is and why?
 
If the test results for the latest AMD processors are accurate...Intel is in trouble. I've historically been an Intel guy myself, but my next build will most likely be AMD
 
I just built my first gaming pc and went with the AMD ryzen 3600 with a rtx 2060 on a tomahawk 450b max. Run great, looks great, performs great. Couldnt be happier
 
Intel is an industry standard, but I've used AMD processors far more. My current setup is running an AMD Ryzen processor with 8 GB ram, buffered, and a NVMe SSD used to run the OS exclusively. I have never had it slow down with what I use it for and it runs quickly and efficiently.
 
Galloway047 said:
Intel is an industry standard, but I've used AMD processors far more. My current setup is running an AMD Ryzen processor with 8 GB ram, buffered, and a NVMe SSD used to run the OS exclusively. I have never had it slow down with what I use it for and it runs quickly and efficiently.
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Nice, my current set up is I5-8600 8GB RAM, 1050ti 4GB and a 250 GB ssd. My next build I am wanting to do is an AMD Ryzen with NVMe ssd but have to wait when I have extra money
 
I've used AMD most of the time and has been pretty good... Though my current gaming laptop has Intel. But is an older one. So not like I can say too many bad things about it.
 
Doggerman25 said:
Nice, my current set up is I5-8600 8GB RAM, 1050ti 4GB and a 250 GB ssd. My next build I am wanting to do is an AMD Ryzen with NVMe ssd but have to wait when I have extra money
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Understandable, building a quality PC is not a cheap endeavor. Using a dedicated SSD on a NVMe or M.2 connection to exclusively run your OS certainly helps speed up your operating performance. I use a sperate SSD on a SATA III connection for everything else other the the OS. If you're open to trying new hardware, I've been recently trying out the SK Hynix S31/P31 SSDs and I've been pretty satisfied with their performance, and they're a good price too.
 
Galloway047 said:
Understandable, building a quality PC is not a cheap endeavor. Using a dedicated SSD on a NVMe or M.2 connection to exclusively run your OS certainly helps speed up your operating performance. I use a sperate SSD on a SATA III connection for everything else other the the OS. If you're open to trying new hardware, I've been recently trying out the SK Hynix S31/P31 SSDs and I've been pretty satisfied with their performance, and they're a good price too.
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Thank you for the suggestion, I am definitely open to new hardware ideas, especially those that are at a good price.
 
AMD - currently running a COVID-19 9 build consisting of a 3600x, gtx2070x, 32gb ram, (2) 1TB ssd drives. FS2020 running at 40 fps on high settings.
 
I've been an Intel fan for years myself, but the new AMD processors are apparently kicking ass on Intel in all benchmarks. Intel has been stagnant for way too long. The 14nm process is antique and they just can't make anything newer work. I would totally go with AMD right now.
 
For whatever it may be worth in amongst all of you admirable computer builders, my current puter has Intel, and I've never had a more reliable and long-lasting puter, and with the same speed it had when I took it out of the box.
Whether or not that's due to the Intel, that IS "positive consumer experience" companies strive for, and caused me to buy another new one of the same model for a spare.
 
I like Intel as well but I am curious about AMD since the pricing is usually better and now the specs are on par with Intel. I hear they run much hotter than Intels so you need more cooling but that could just be rumor.
 
This is my first "build". AMD 8350, SSD, 16 gb RAM, gigabyte UD990somethingsomething mobo GTX960 (4 core) vid card. Price was main point of selection of parts I play a variety of mostly up to date games. GTA5, no problems unless its modded to bejeezus. One thing I would recommend the OS itself have its own SSD, or a decent sized partition on a larger drive, leaving the OS completely alone.
 
AMD forever. Socket AM3+ Opteron 3280 anyway. Not messing with AM4 or newer due to poor and often nonexistant windows 7 support. Though I normally run Fedora, Kubuntu, or various flavors of Debian. there are certain things I need windows for, and I'm not about to ''downgrade'' to 8 8.1 or 10.
 
Intel FTW! Absolutely Monstrous Democrats are a lie, they should recount the benchmarks, it's all flawed, it's a conspiracy, Intel cannot loose, they invented the computing, they have the more money!
 
Most things are still single-thread, unless you really need them not to be. Multi-threaded programming is pretty hard to do correctly
 
drt82 said:
AMD isn't as forgiving as Intel. You need a matched chipset and all the bus speed you can afford, invest in a high end motherboard and GFX card. You can not overclock or overheat AMD. Make sure power supply can deliver required stable voltage at max current draw and liquid cooling is a must if its gonna be maxed out for long periods. Running Linux instead of windows from a highspeed SSD, utilizing L2 cache and GFX card memory/GPU will speed up frontside and minimize bottlenecking. it'll outperform an Intel on everything except single-thread processes.
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AMD overclocks just fine, you just have to know how to do it. Some like my Opteron require increasing the HT bus (akin to upping the FSB on intel) but a lot of their other chips have a BE or black edition, that has an unlocked multiplier. you just need a motherboard that supports it. (Most DIY boards do). Needs watercooling...HAHA you must not have used AMD since the AthlonXP era. a lot of those were ''mini furnaces'' but that stopped with socket 754 and anything newer. (at least up to AM3+ dunno about beyond that).
 
Intel was in trouble but not now. They learned their lesson and their 10th gen CPUs all have hyperthreading. Working on a build right now using the i5 10400. Will be looking forward to Black Friday sales.
 
At the moment AMD is just better in every case. That has been different before the ryzen architecture. I'm not speaking as a fanboy here, you just have to compare specs to come to that conclusion. Intel just didn't innovate for too long while AMD had a microarchitecture that was good in theory but not in real life. When AMD got out ryzen, Intel was just overwhelmed and also as AMD is not producing the chips themselves they can use external factories that are more advanced then the Intel ones. With microchips (structure)size *does* matter both in heat loss and speed. In five years that might be the other way around again, but at the moment go for AMD, even if you don't need the features that set apart AMD from intel even when they were the worse processors. AMD doesn't lock features the way Intel does, so you can have all the enterprise features that Intel does deactivate in their cheap chips and all the I/O lanes that are possible and similar stuff that you only notice in detail when you need it but that smells like with enterprise cameras that are technically the same as consumer ones while the latter have a castrated firmware.
 
Each one goes through an ebb and flow. Back in the day, AMD was the better one, and then Intel pulled ahead from the late 2000s until a couple years ago. Now AMD is the better choice with their new Zen lines.
 
I began with a Intel 286, then went for Cyrix 386, Intel again for the 486 and Pentiums, my first AMD was an AMD Sempron, then Athlon and Athlon 64 X2, then Intel Again (Core i5 6600K) and now a Core i7 mobile. Next will be AMD I think....
 
I may go with AMD for my next build. I should give them a shot. I would like to try the Ryzen 5.
 
Intel. I remember AMD in the athlon era was king but when conroe dropped, it was intel all the way.
 
AMD all day every day! "₩ïñŤ€£" ain't got nothing on AMD.

AMD isn't Ryzen to the top. Nope, it has already won the tri-Athlon!

AMD stands for Absolute Madlad's Device! While INTEL stands for It Needn't Try it Exceptionally Lost
 
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Intel. I remember AMD in the athlon era was king but when conroe dropped, it was intel all the way.
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Every laptop I had that was intel i7 lasted about four years. I had a friend of mine who had an AMD Athlon Lenovo laptop and it burned out in two years. I have heard that AMDs quality control and heating issues have been improved with the latest Ryzen series.
 
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Used to date a guy who was into this stuff, he said that AMD is good for budget computers but Intel is better. that was a while ago so idk if it's different now.
 
If building in the next year or so, AMD hands down. Next year is a different story though. Intel has been chilling at the top for a while, they didn't just sit on their thrown and watch it decay. They will pull out their R&D to try and beat AMD again soon.

So yea, current gen, AMD. Next gen, to be determined.
 
I don't really have a preference either way, however my current rig has a Ryzen in it and I'm quite happy with it. Which one is "better" usually just depends on the generation. AMD has been popping off lately.
 
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