http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: need help picking en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:59:30 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/need-help-picking#post-27936 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:44:00 +0000 ScottW 27936@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I respectfully disagree with my fellow geek, whs, that an AMD 4800+ is faster than an Intel Q6600. I won't say that benchmarks prove everything, but clearly the Tom's Hardware benchmark shows the Q6600 is faster than the 4800+ on anything you want to do -- games, video encoding, image filters, audio compression, synthetic benchmarks, and so on.</p> <p>Further discussion of Intel vs AMD procs will be taken to this thread:<br /> <a href='http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/whs-intel-vs-amd-cpus'>http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/whs-intel-vs-amd-cpus</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/need-help-picking#post-27919 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:45:17 +0000 whs 27919@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>The big advantage of the AMD is the faster FSB. The 6000+ runs a little hot. I would settle for the 5600+. I find the AMD's faster than the Intels - have 2 of each in comparable setups. E.g. my 4800+ beats my Q6600 hands down. With the tests you have to be careful. Make sure their setup compares to what you are going to do. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/need-help-picking#post-27875 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:19:40 +0000 ScottW 27875@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>These processors look to be very close in performance. The passmark CPU test shows the Intel E6550 just edging out the AMD 6000+ but the margin is small:<br /> <a href='http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html'>http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html</a></p> <p>The CPU benchmark charts at Tom's Hardware let you pick from many different benchmarks and add and remove CPUs from the list. Very thorough, but also complicated:<br /> <a href='http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/processors/3d-studio-max-9,369.html'>http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/processors/3d-studio-max-9,369.html</a></p> <p>In some tests the AMD wins, others the Intel. It looks to me like these 2 processors are roughly equivalent, performance wise. So, you can make your decision based on other factors. Good luck. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/need-help-picking#post-27864 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:32:59 +0000 bbdelux 27864@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i'm actually now thinking about getting the INTEL it seem to be the best for gaming<br /> thanks for your help deney </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/need-help-picking#post-27857 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:57:51 +0000 Deney 27857@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I don't know too much about processors either but I tried to google it before I bought mine:</p> <p>I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.8ghz. So the one below yours, and I picked mine over a Intel too. In your case, in pure processing speed, the AMD is a fair bit better than the Intel. When I was researching on google before I bought mine, It said that my AMD in particular was better at all types of computing tasks, except gaming, than Intel. So that's why I chose my AMD, despite being a gamer. I don't plan on playing Crysis with full specs, and so a processor of this calibre can cope with most high end games fairly well. (on top of having a £200 gfx card =D).<br /> But like I said, I'm no processor expert =p and I just found this (was the first page on google haha) <a href='http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html'>http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html</a></p> <p>And it seems that the Processors you are comparing, the Intel is better. So yeah...the choice is yours =p.</p> <p>Just stumbled across this too : <a href='http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-362-1.htm'>http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-362-1.htm</a><br /> It's directly linked to you, aso just flick through and look at the charts (at least that's what I did).<br /> And I take that back about Crysis, my AMD seemed to perform well on the gaming test =pp. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/need-help-picking#post-27851 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:17:04 +0000 bbdelux 27851@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i am setting up a computer and have to pick between to cpu's<br /> either AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.0GHz<br /> or INTEL Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz</p> <p>i don't know to much about processors but i hear that intel is best but in these two the AMD seem to be best </p>