As an overall high spec processor, which is the best choice out of a Pentium D 945 or an AMD X2 6000+?
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In my experience it depends on what you want to do. In the past I've used both Intels and AMDs, and here's some comparisons. I won't make any judgment, just offer what I've noticed:
AMD chips run a lot hotter than Intels
Intel chips usually have higher clock speeds and bus speeds, however AMD processors often out-perform Intel chips despite a lower speed (for instance, my AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.8gHz) outperformed my P4 3.2gHz). This was while the CPUs were being used for gaming.
AMD chips are generally cheaper
From what I gather, Intel's business philosophy is to make the bleeding-edge fastest processors, while AMDs is to offer the most stable (though not necessarily fastest) processors.
Again, these are just what I've found in my experience, having built a dozen or so personal PCs and a couple of servers. My box now is an Intel box, and I've had no problems at all. Thanks to the commoditization of computer hardware these days, you'll probably not be disappointed either way, as long as you stick to the mid to high-end processors and not the budget range (Duron and Sempron for AMD, Celeron for Intel).
The AMD i'd go for
pentium is more stable as running same cpu for 3 years now no probs
I hate to give you conflicting answers but I disagree with the second and third post. AMD offers high performance gaming processors. While their processors run at a lower operating frequency (Pentium D something like 3Ghtz and AMD something like 2.4Ghtz) and run hotter; benchmarks don't lie. The Pentium D will be beaten by an AMD X2 6000. The AMD X2 6000, if operating using 65nm capacitors it will also have lower power consumption.
If HOWEVER you were to compare the Core 2 Duo to the AMD X2 series, AMD is quite clearly beaten in the benchmarks. Common belief is that dual core is unnecessary to gaming but is useful for tasks like video editing. The latter part of the statement is wrong. New games will be making use of both cores, many already are.
**UPDATE** An example of a game which makes use of dual core technology already is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas. Crysis a game many think looks photorealistic (also what I obsessed about till I switched from PC gaming to PS3)^*^ will not only make use of dual core processing but quad core.
^*^vist www.gametrailers.com and search Crysis to see High Def video demonstrations of the games graphical capability.
i agree with the other posts, but I learned the AMD is the king of gaming, while Intel is great for multi-tasking. I have stick with AMD for awhile and been quite happy. but dual core technology is not yet utilized for gaming but I heard there are programs that allow you to assign different programs or tasks to each individual core, but I do agree with the post above me.
AMD is the best one.
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