We get the put the two heavey weighs in the ring head to head, will AMD throw in the towel? Or maybe Intel is all mouth.... We fire up the test rigs to find out who really is the best. By Mul
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OC3D Review: AMD vs Intel
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AaronCooper
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Hehe tom you put AMD Vs. nVidia not intel 
Rastalovich
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name='AaronCooper' said:Hehe tom you put AMD Vs. nVidia not intel
Freudient slip.
It's evident to me that if ur just gaming, u can afford to make a choice of either camp. Even if ur enthusiastic in ur approach. Cash will often dictate ur choice, although primarily I try to stress to people (in this day'n'age) ur major purchase should always be the gfxcard for gaming. It makes little sense to dump a large portion of ur budget into cpu/mobo/mem and settle for a 4770, when u could get a 5870 and the balance can effectively make up the numbers.
Some1 with an i7 and a 4770 will do less well as a P35/E8400 and a 5870, for example.
Think the biggest decision maker is what else u do with the pc other than gaming.
Great read btw.
Sorry to criticise the review but it lacks depth in terms of results as their isn't enough infomation to give conclusive evidence i.e. not enough Benchmarks as some games fair better on one CPU or the other - check other reviews.
Would of been a more interesting read if you did a clock for clock analysis just to see if the INTEL i7 920 @ 3.4GHz gave a significant boost or not over the stock 2.66GHz.
Then do another test with both CPU's at 3.8GHz to see if either CPU can take advantage of the 5870 graphics card.
Also would of been more interesting if you had added results using Lynnfield into the equation.
On a positive note for Fred Bloggs buying a PC from a retail chain PC outlet the results will be good for the non-overclocker who isn't bothered about these things.
Would of been a more interesting read if you did a clock for clock analysis just to see if the INTEL i7 920 @ 3.4GHz gave a significant boost or not over the stock 2.66GHz.
Then do another test with both CPU's at 3.8GHz to see if either CPU can take advantage of the 5870 graphics card.
Also would of been more interesting if you had added results using Lynnfield into the equation.
On a positive note for Fred Bloggs buying a PC from a retail chain PC outlet the results will be good for the non-overclocker who isn't bothered about these things.
danimoth17
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I would have preferred a comparison using the core i7-860 or 870.
that way you would have been using the same dual channel memory etc.
just to rule out other influences as much as possible.
that way you would have been using the same dual channel memory etc.
just to rule out other influences as much as possible.
name='Nelly' said:
Cheers for the feedback
Truth be told, with the equipment that I had to hand, between the previously reviewed Titan Goliath PC and it's HD 5870, I thought it might be possible to pull together another article with some results. If I had more gaming benchmarks to hand as well as a Core i5, then certainly they would have been included but even without doing so, our conclusion still holds true.
amd has a slight advantage fo a faster clock speed. would be interesting to see how it waould fair vs a 920 @ 3.4 ..
i will argue that speed - speed amd seem to be down on the fps etc might be the lower fsb and high multi throttling the cards? , just a thought as my old e6600 did better fps than my amd 6000x2
with identical everything - mobo ...
i will argue that speed - speed amd seem to be down on the fps etc might be the lower fsb and high multi throttling the cards? , just a thought as my old e6600 did better fps than my amd 6000x2
with identical everything - mobo ...
