Hellmeister
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Ok a friend of mine always swears an oath to me that he will never go intel for his gaming pc's, as in his eyes intel is the first great work of the devil,
Wierd babbeling aside does anyone have an AMD operated machien, and is it any good for gaming?
How does it compair in relation to intel?
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| 12/28/07 16:40 |
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Phedre_D
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I have an AMD and it works fine. I actually thought there is hardly any real difference between the two. They both do the trick just fine. The only brand I would worry about is your video card. Make sure it is NVidia.
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| 12/29/07 16:40 |
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Actually there is a very slight difference, but it is a background one. Intel chips are designed to report statistical data back to the manufacturer (originally this was for diagnosing or monitoring potential problems). Many people felt that this was just one step shy of spyware (in fact technically it is not, as it is not reporting private information). AMD performance is top notch, and they are the only company I buy processors from because of their price to performance value. Other than that it is all prety much the same. I use Intel at work and AMD at home. I have gamed CoH/CoV on both machines. They have identical RAM and Video Cards (256 MB nVidia PCI cards). The processors are the same speed (2.0 GHz). No serious difference. Phe is absolutely right. I am using a 256 MB nVidia card and it rocks.
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| 12/29/07 19:50 |
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Now here is my real question, the adobe CS3 master collection, love it to bit that i do.
Does anyone know if i can run it on a AMD or does it have to be intel only, only says intel on the packaging but not many products mention AMD in honesty, anyone got any clues cause this is what will likely seal my deal
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| 12/30/07 15:26 |
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Something to consider:
AMD is now owner of ATI, expect so a division of
Intel/nVidia vs AMD/ATI in future.
On the VG cards my experiences are that ATI performs better, but nVidia is more reliable. In other words, ATI sucks at writing drivers. However, there's the G880xx driver debacle of the first half of 2007 to consider. That was beyond ATI crappiness, and not just because of Vista/DX10. the Dx 9.0C drivers sucked too.
*Sigh* I miss my beloved Matrox G200 Millenium cards. *sniff*
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| 12/30/07 18:27 |
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