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(6 posts)I don't know too much about processors either but I tried to google it before I bought mine:
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).
But like I said, I'm no processor expert =p and I just found this (was the first page on google haha) http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
And it seems that the Processors you are comparing, the Intel is better. So yeah...the choice is yours =p.
Just stumbled across this too : http://www.hardcoreware.net/re.....-362-1.htm
It's directly linked to you, aso just flick through and look at the charts (at least that's what I did).
And I take that back about Crysis, my AMD seemed to perform well on the gaming test =pp.
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:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html
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:
http://www.tomshardware.com/ch.....9,369.html
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.
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.
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.
Further discussion of Intel vs AMD procs will be taken to this thread:
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....s-amd-cpus
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