nforce4max wrote:petro89 wrote:Yep. A strong AMD benefits everyone.
Yea but sadly those days are behind us, I was bit of an AMD fan until Bulldozer hit the scene.
Still kind of off topic, but the desktop scene for AMD is years and years behind.. sadly.
The fastest AMD non-APU desktop cpu's are I think 3-4 years old today, and their fastest multi-GPU platform, 990FX doesn't even have native PCI-Express 3.0 yet.. they sell PCIE-3.0 video cards, but yet have no AMD platform that can use them at full speed.
Where as Intel is now on I think it's 3rd or 4th (or maybe 5th) generation PCIE-3.0 platform. And even the newest intel platforms have USB 3.1 onboard and Sata-10Gbps onboard as well.
I used to like AMD, but sadly they're just way behind the times, both in performance and features. 🙁
Most of their focus is on the newer APU chips these days with integrated graphics.
These days Intel is: high compute performance with low power and low heat.
AMD is: decent compute performance, but on the high-end extremely high power (almost +2x Intel's i7 chips for some amd 8 cores) and high heat (the bigger 8 core AMD Chips -REQUIRE- water cooling).
AMD's usually cheaper too. So just depends on what you can handle performance wise and your budget which you get.
I'm not being "Fanboyish" ... just starting facts. It is what it is today.
Also about the above quote, yes the "Socket" you can get one socket and use a wide range of chips with AMD but then it boils down to the motherboard. Not all motherboards have the power sub-system to support the higher end chips, some of them are just restricted to a few. Some AMD motherboards even though on the right socket, don't even support 6 core amd chips (or anything past that). So just have to be careful what you buy with AMD and do your research first.