Sidney

RichBa5tard,
The question now, what would you have done if you were "him"?

I will add another one in;

1) The Company needs to replace 100 PII Celeron 500-766 in the general office support including customer service.
2) 100 laptops for sales and Department heads.
3) 25 for engineering department mostly in Autocad and 3D.
4) As Network adm. and VP of IT; you upgrade the server and all communications to keep the company up-to-day from the 6 years old system.

You have all the money you need; bottom line, reduction of downtime and less people.

I must add: you are making $125,000 salary per year with three kids and a big house mortgage and a new sports car. So, your decision has a lot to do with your assets.

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lazyman

Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

jmke

if you are buying for companies you go with Dell/Compaq/Ibm , and you pay for the service. If they offer A64 solutions then sure they WILL be reliable because if they brake down they will be replaced asap.

the problem is that Intel has a hold on dell/compaq/ibm and will rather lower its prices then see them selling AMD in large quantities...

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Da_BoKa

my previous nf7-s rev1.2 lived over 1 year @ extreme conditions, but sudenly it died, don't know why, and that was my first amd motherboard that died

imo it's not amd that is unreliable but it's the chipset ( nforce ), yes that i admid, but still i like amd, don't know why

FreeStyler

And in the end, as usual, this ended up in a AMD vs Intel discussion.
Does it matter for an end user, probably not. Trust me, both intel and AMD have their problems. It's rarely the CPU however (also both of them), and I don't think it's the chipsets either. The motherboard design itself is more often the cause of problems.

What IS a fact is that AMD has cheaper CPU's then intel.
Heat production won't matter. Speed hardly matters, enough is enough.
The only advantage Intel has is hyperthreading. This will make multitasking a bit smoother. Does this justify the price difference, that's up to you.

jmke

Duh?

Thread title "What is better Pentium or AMD"

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wutske

I just knew this would happen .
The title says; "What is better Pentium or AMD"
In his case; "What is better for me ?"
Problem; we don't know what he will do with it.
This cause; a 'war'
Solution; Salva; what are u going to do ? Gaming, Office, Internet, Video editting, surfing ...

187(V)URD@

here is a comparison between budget cpu's.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...alue-cpus.html

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