Heres a little help to help you decide
Intel chips are expensive, I agree but amd are equally expensive too. The cost of the motherboard depends on what model you get. The average model with not alot of features can be very cheap but if youre looking into overclocking or exellent performance you don't really need a expensive delux model of the motherboard. Secondly s939 is amd socket for their processors. While s939 are still using DDR rams(correct me if im wrong) the new socket that intel uses for it core 2 duo and the latest addition core 2 quad is the lga775 socket which uses DDR2 rams. In the past amd was more popular as when it came out with the athalon 64 which means the processor is capable of running 64bit programmes like vista. Old windows xp runs on only 32 bits. But intel's new Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and some pentium fours all have 64 bit implemented in them. Now if you want to compare speed, normally amd uses a lower clock speed measured in GHz but a higher fsb(Front Side Bus). Intel has a higher clockspeed but lower Ghz using a better multiplyer. For those who don't understand, lets say your computer is 2.6Ghz or 2600mHz. and your cpu multipler is 16 so to find your fsb 2600mHz Divided by 16 = Front Side bus. So intel uses a lower fsb and higher multiplyer and amd uses a higher Fsb and lower multiplyer. So thats a comparison. Next about the multiple core hoo ha. Core 2 Duo stands for 2 physical cores and 4 logical cores. That means its like each "real" core on your computer can act at two cores. So add them up together you get four cores. Same applies to core 2 quad. Im not so sure about amd so i wont comment on that. So you wanna compare amd with intel. Well all i can say is that the core 2 duo really performs better than amd current anthlon64 x 2 and their athlon FX. So i would recommend switching to intel as they use the newer type of rams DDR2 and their new lga775 platform rocks. The price of the core 2 duo isnt that bad. It all boils down to the fact of if you are using it to work or to play games. If you are using it for normal work. I think what i have written is a waste of your time and you should just look out for which one is cheaper. If you are going for games go for the Core 2 Duo with a decent graphic card like x1600 ati or the 7800gtx for nvidea. :sweat: wah tok so much later you dun understand i die ah
Intel chips are expensive, I agree but amd are equally expensive too. The cost of the motherboard depends on what model you get. The average model with not alot of features can be very cheap but if youre looking into overclocking or exellent performance you don't really need a expensive delux model of the motherboard. Secondly s939 is amd socket for their processors. While s939 are still using DDR rams(correct me if im wrong) the new socket that intel uses for it core 2 duo and the latest addition core 2 quad is the lga775 socket which uses DDR2 rams. In the past amd was more popular as when it came out with the athalon 64 which means the processor is capable of running 64bit programmes like vista. Old windows xp runs on only 32 bits. But intel's new Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and some pentium fours all have 64 bit implemented in them. Now if you want to compare speed, normally amd uses a lower clock speed measured in GHz but a higher fsb(Front Side Bus). Intel has a higher clockspeed but lower Ghz using a better multiplyer. For those who don't understand, lets say your computer is 2.6Ghz or 2600mHz. and your cpu multipler is 16 so to find your fsb 2600mHz Divided by 16 = Front Side bus. So intel uses a lower fsb and higher multiplyer and amd uses a higher Fsb and lower multiplyer. So thats a comparison. Next about the multiple core hoo ha. Core 2 Duo stands for 2 physical cores and 4 logical cores. That means its like each "real" core on your computer can act at two cores. So add them up together you get four cores. Same applies to core 2 quad. Im not so sure about amd so i wont comment on that. So you wanna compare amd with intel. Well all i can say is that the core 2 duo really performs better than amd current anthlon64 x 2 and their athlon FX. So i would recommend switching to intel as they use the newer type of rams DDR2 and their new lga775 platform rocks. The price of the core 2 duo isnt that bad. It all boils down to the fact of if you are using it to work or to play games. If you are using it for normal work. I think what i have written is a waste of your time and you should just look out for which one is cheaper. If you are going for games go for the Core 2 Duo with a decent graphic card like x1600 ati or the 7800gtx for nvidea. :sweat: wah tok so much later you dun understand i die ah
