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More for your dollarNov 30 '01 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line AMD systems cost you less money for the same amount of processor power in an Intel system. Both systems top performance are roughly the same.
Intel has been around since the beginning of the current computer age. It is after all their X86 chipsets that have defined where we are in computing through the past decade or so. They have proven to make reliable chips and remain in the mainstream media with their name plastered all over everything. Some people may be wondering just what AMD is. AMD is an alternative processor manufacturing company that make high quality products for lower price that Intel. Dont confuse price for performance or even quality. When you buy an Intel chip, you are paying for all that national advertising they do. It's on the TV, on the net, in stores, in fact its hard to go anywhere without being bombarded with the Intel name. AMD however has practically no advertising budget. I have not seen any advertising for AMD for as long as I have know they existed. While they dont advertise themselves however, their products are of such a quality that now many people swear by them, and in doing so AMD has found a way to advertise for free. AMD chips have proven to be faster than Intels pentiums are, so much so that you see an AMD Athalon 1.4 GHZ chip outperforming an Intel Pentium chip running at 2.0 GHZ. The reason for this is partially because of the rambus ram used in intel chips. Because of heating and other problems they needed a way to regulate the chip temperature and prevent it from burning up. The rambus memory is made to be a bottleneck in speed to slow down commands going to the CPU chip. While this works quite nicely to keep temperatures down its end result is to mislead the average consumer into viewing their chip as far superior to AMD athalons. A normal average Joe will always buy a 2.0GHZ Pentium over a 1.4 GHZ Athalon because the number is larger. AMD chips run at about half the price than Intels chips for roughly the same performance, and the memory used by AMD's (DDR ram) is right about half the price for an equivalent amount of Intels ram(rambus). -note- AMD is not the ram manufacturer of DDR ram, and likewise Intel isnt the rambus ram manufacturer. This is written in a way that you can assiciate the type of ram each chip is designed to operate with.  |
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