I was talking to a guy at a pc store and he told me to go with an intel cpu with a intel mobo instead of amd and asus because the intel/intel combo will work much faster together because it is made by the same company and ment for compadibility. Is there really a difference or was that guy BSing me.
Also i keep hearing that all the pentium 4s run hot like 50 C idle and amd athlon 64s run more like high 20s and low 30s idle. Please confirm.
Thanks for the help.
Intel’s motherboards are quite good and if you want a motherboard to get up and go and won’t crap out on you, they’re very solid motherboards. At stock speeds they’re pretty much the best you can get. The bad news is that they’re not always the most tricked out ones available. Secondly, the P4 heat issues partially true. The hot ones use the Prescott core, which is rather inefficient with a longer pipeline (extra hoops for data to jump through) and the design runs hot. The older, and more popular core, Northwood, was pretty cool running. The part about the A64’s is correct.
In the past AMD’s hinderance was being paired with non-Intel chipsets after Intel went with a proprietary CPU interface. At the time Intel chipsets were the only game in town worth a damn. Now, you’ve got a very good solution with the nForce 4 chipset for the Athlon platform.
For strict gaming, you want an Athlon 64. For multitasking, you may find that Intel is a better choice. This depends more specifically what you’re using. In general, audio encoding runs a bit better on an Intel platform.
I’m not a fanboy, I’m just for whatever works best for what I need in a situation. AMD has come a looooong way from where they used to be: a competitor with Intel’s lowly Celeron.
There will be no performance degredation with running a A64 on an ASUS or Gigabtye, DFI etc. motherboard, some perform better than others but the difference is often insignificant. And if multitasking is really your thing than AMD’s X2 league is quite a bit more efficient than Intels dual-core chips. As B said AMD has bragging rights with games.