AMD or Intel?

Why do you need a 1200 watt PSU?

 

Yup I'm defiantly what you would consider an AMD guy.

Over the past 8 years or so I've owned pretty much exclusivly AMD desktop products minus an intel laptop. Over time ive had an AMD duron I believe it was clocked at 600mhz or something which my parents bought in the very late 90s and gave too me around 2007. I only recently owned a Quad core AMD 955BE @3.8ghz that a few weeks back was replaced by my new chip an FX-8350 @4ghz. All of them, even the 14 odd year old duron still run to this day like they used too. All though the 955BE is no longer used because it was quite dated and replacing a faulty mobo for an relatively old chip is kinda pointless when you're thinking off upgrading anyway.

I'm really happy with all of the AMD products ive owned and although you hear quite a lot about Vishera chips and thier crazy heat output, preformance issues and power usage so far I've really seen nothing wrong with my FX-8350 with me idling at about 15c on a Coolermaster 212 evo and only reaching about 60c tops under stress is more than acceptable for me. Overclocking to 5ghz is pretty easy with just the water cooler that is often packaged with the 8350. Power usage isnt crazy and atm im just running of a corsair cx750w psu with no problems. Performance wise its really impressive and will out preform a similarly if not a little higher priced 3770k with stock clocks about 9/10 times and when it does out preform it will do so by a good margin. Its also helped by the generally cheaper motherboard prices that usually have a good few more features than an Intel equivalent at the same price.

 

15c temps on idle are only possible if your room is close to 0c which I doubt.

 

Hmm, well im getting between 15c to around 23c according to speed fan and another temp monitor, I would guess its more like 20c on average.

 

Even 20c at idle is pretty unrealistic. I get 32c at idle with my noctua nf-u12f and 2500k. Try another program, like HWmonitor. Some programs tend to give false readings on some hardware.

 

My temps with the same CPU at 4Ghz, high 20s in winter and high 30s in the summer.

But with my previous CPU I had readings of 16-18c even below ambient temp, the problem was that it was reading 10c below the real temp the sensor was detecting.

 

I'm an AMD guy, but Intel seem to have that "edge" over AMD's stuff. I buy AMD on cost-effectiveness but I met a guy who can get me Intel hardware for "better than AMD" prices. I might make the jump.

 

Most likely its a false reading seeing as its just too low at times...


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Take your ambient temp and add 5-10c and that would be a realistic value for idle temps.

 

I've used a lot of different computers, and I'm really disappointed with any brand's low end products. I really hate old Intels because they're so inefficient and get hot and are always throttling. Old AMDs suck because even though they can get as hot as the sun, they still have too many cores and not enough power. My AMD apu has 4 cores but it can't run BeamNG or even Google Chrome without lag. However, running 4 instances of Chrome and it's about the same speed.

So, from experience (in OLD cpus), AMD can multitask better (generally more cores) and Intel gets better single thread speed.

That said, I haven't EVER used any high end processors, I've never used even an i5 or an FX series. Interestingly enough they are beginning to compensate for their differences, with Intel's hyperthreading and AMD's crazy clock speeds. I'd say at that speed of the chip nothing is going to lag that much so really it's more of a choice of colour than actual performance. Yes, there is a difference, but both are "fast".

tl:dr Both are crap in low end, both are great in high end, deal with the differences and stop the flamewars