AMD vs. INTEL.again.

if i built an budget Intel system for a family member, cousin, friend or relative here's what i'd built

AMD Athlon 64 3500+, Epox EP-9NPA3J, Radeon X850 PE, 1GB (2x512) DDR400!

and put a big Intel Inside Label on the case hehehe...

Wait for dual core from Intel.

i thought Intel Dual Core is out already? anyhow, dual cores are quite expensive at the moment

so which one you go for EngLee???

You mean wait until Intel copies AMD yet again?

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HAHAHAHAHA!

people say AMD is the underdog, but i think they are doing pretty well so far

Actually...Apple was the first to have duel processors...with their G5.

--Craig

Indel Dual COres are already out, and some are cheaper than the AMD Dual cores.

Well, apple is just out there is nowhere's land it seems...

Apple have just commited themselves to using Intel CPU's in all their new models.

As for the tension between Intel and AMD, they had at one point being working together [ back when IBM ruled supreme ] to produce a CPU. Intel and AMD had been working seperatly but decided to join forces. There was a bit of tension between the engineers and supposedly Intel "forgot" to mention certain things to the AMD engineers when passing on information.

Any truth in this will all come to light when the Intel and AMD go to court over this Monopoly issue.

As GT500Shlby has stated, Intel already has Dual Core CPU's in production :
http://www.intel.com/personal/desktopco ... /index.htm

Intel are currently lagging a little behind AMD in the Dual Core department, but thats not to say their CPU's are rubbish.

The next step would be asymetrical cores where each core is optimized to do certain operations. For instance a gaming core and an application core, or even a services core and a compile on-demand core (great for web-based java apps).

Intel are currently struggling with the Dual Core at the moment [ running slower and hotter than AMD X2's ], god knows what would happen if they attempted that

I read a while back that there is a company looking into making a seperate chip for mathematic and physics calculations. That would be another function removed from the CPU leaving it free to look after the components better.

I use Intel based systems at work for all the typical office stuff and the networked pc's, but at home I use an AMD based system as I find the AMD's to be much more fluid for the gaming that I do.

A big round robin. Off-die math coprocessors to on-die math coprocessor to off-die math coprocessors again. I guess with the FSB and the HTT's being so fast it wouldn't become a bottleneck until they can make the processes even smaller to be able to fit that on-die again.

Sun UltraSparc's have asymetrical cores on their processors at a true 64bit architecture. They mioght even have a true multithreading architecture. That coupled with the XBOX 360 having a sick processor it kind of makes what AMD & Intel are doing look obsolete.