02-18-2014, 02:48 PM
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I've been building computers for going on 19 years now, and I used to always prefer AMD. Damn I loved my AMD K6-II @ 500 MHz, totally blew away the Pentium III 550MHz of the same era!
However, as Anthony pointed out, AMD has been having a lot of issues lately. My current gaming desktop has an AMD FX4100 quad core CPU... and quite frankly it's unstable as fuckall even w/out overclocking. It also runs super-hot if you run all 4 cores at 100% for awhile (like when I spend 4-5 hours playing Assassin's Creed IV or Skyrim...), and then it'll crash. That's with a $30 after-market high capacity CPU cooling system (best for that CPU w/out going to liquid cooling). I'm very disappointed in it.
When it comes to the CPUs Anthony references with the troubled cores locked out, I'm very familiar with it. I'm also familiar with people having issues because they get a MOBO with an enhanced BIOS that allows locking/unlocking of the cores by the user and they would unlock trouble cores and fry their CPUs.
This laptop I'm typing from right now is an Intel Core i7, and I'm in love with it. AMD was my go-to for many many years, but not anymore.
I do still enjoy AMD Server CPUs, but again, the more recent ones are running hotter than they should for the performance you get.
However, as Anthony pointed out, AMD has been having a lot of issues lately. My current gaming desktop has an AMD FX4100 quad core CPU... and quite frankly it's unstable as fuckall even w/out overclocking. It also runs super-hot if you run all 4 cores at 100% for awhile (like when I spend 4-5 hours playing Assassin's Creed IV or Skyrim...), and then it'll crash. That's with a $30 after-market high capacity CPU cooling system (best for that CPU w/out going to liquid cooling). I'm very disappointed in it.
When it comes to the CPUs Anthony references with the troubled cores locked out, I'm very familiar with it. I'm also familiar with people having issues because they get a MOBO with an enhanced BIOS that allows locking/unlocking of the cores by the user and they would unlock trouble cores and fry their CPUs.
This laptop I'm typing from right now is an Intel Core i7, and I'm in love with it. AMD was my go-to for many many years, but not anymore.
I do still enjoy AMD Server CPUs, but again, the more recent ones are running hotter than they should for the performance you get.
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