AMD in Trouble

[Angrist]

Null, from what I've heard, an AMD becomes hotter than an Intel and therefore needs more fanning.

I see/hear so many PCs that are quieter than mine and I know that those people didn't buy another fan.

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Null, from what I've heard, an AMD becomes hotter than an Intel and therefore needs more fanning.

I see/hear so many PCs that are quieter than mine and I know that those people didn't buy another fan.

True.

...in my experience. The last AMD I bought was a loud-mouthed, dual-fan beast that made these looooooooong, droooooning whiiiiirrs as the two fans would get out of sync and would combine their loudness powers to form one uber loudness monster. Granted, that was an Athlon, and I haven't happened to build another AMD machine since.

The two Pentium 4s I built next, on the other hand, were very quiet without having to buy some special processor fan.

I've never had any particular loyalty to one company or another. I usually just buy whatever videocard or CPU happens to have the most power at the time I build the machine. I guess I'm lucky not to have had some of the horror stories I've read here, since I've owned and enjoyed products from AMD, Intel, ATI, and nVidia without any major problems from any of them. Except the Athlon loudness and overheating problems, one of which was solved by buying a couple extra case fans but the other one of which oddly got worse.....

[KillerGremlin]

nvidia has always been my card provider of choice, i find that their cards are cheaper, faster, and have some cool workarounds like unlocking pipes and easy overclocking.

i'm indifferent in the processor game...AMD's old processors were a bargain last year, and the two desktop computers that have been thrown together in my home both house AMD processors. One is dual core. My laptop has an intel core duo processor, and it runs wonderfully. I have an nvidia card in it.


I would not rule AMD out. I mean, not too long ago you might have been complaining about how crappy the p4s were.

but i'm with mana, i go for the cheapest most powerful thing at the time i need to buy/build. so whatever works!

[Null]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Null, from what I've heard, an AMD becomes hotter than an Intel and therefore needs more fanning.

old AMD's used to run very very hot. not really so much from the amd 64's and on. they're pretty much the same as any cpu you buy these days.

but im not saying anything about heat. or how much cooling power is needed for the cpu. nor am i saying about which cpu is better. (altho last i heard, intel was the more powerful cpu currently, while amd gets you much better prices)

what im saying is, fans the come with the processors are not as good of quality as a real cpu fan that you buy on its own.

the fan that comes with the cpu (whether they need to cool a lot or only cool a little) are generally much louder fans then the higher quality fans you can buy for your cpu.

I see/hear so many PCs that are quieter than mine and I know that those people didn't buy another fan.

exactly, cheap fans. you could buy the exact same processor as yours with the exact same fan and it itself might be quieter or louder then yours. they're inconsistent, and loud. even the peoples pcs you know didn't buy another fan, if they did, they could cool their computer better and make it even quieter then it is now




usually what i do is buy the processor on its own without the fan. save a bit of money and use that to buy a nicer fan on its own.

[thatmariolover]

I had a 6600GT for a while about two years ago I think. It was nice, but it ended up pulling too much power for my PSU. Apparently that's a common problem. They listed them as requiring ~100w less than they actually needed and burned out quite a few motherboards because of that.

With that said, I replaced it with an ATI x1600. It's a nice card, I like it, it's worked well for me. That said, I'm in the market for my next PC and the card in it will probably be an nVidia simply because the Catalyst drivers make me cry after being spoiled with Forceware. Quite honestly, that was my biggest disappointment in getting my ATI card.

But I've no real love for one or the other. They seem to trade power for price fairly regularly so I guess it'll just depend on how soon I buy my parts.