Re: Which CPU ....dammit ! ? :-)

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:23:26 +0100, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>RJK writes:
>
>> Whilst I could happily spend forever studying cpu / motherboard reviews at
>> site like Tomshardware etc. ..(...this evening disappeared doing just
>> that ), if money was almost limitless - which would you buy; AMD or Intel,
>> and which socket ? ...and now there are dual core cpu's that further
>> complicate and delay a decision.
>
>What type of use do you plan for the PC you are building?
>
>There are relatively few applications that require extremely powerful
>processors. Most of the processor power in a PC or a Mac goes into
>driving the GUI (drawing windows on the screen, in other words), if
>there are no processor-intensive applications running.
>
>Some things that _are_ processor-intensive include many games,
>anything that manipulates video, programs that manipulate still images
>in some cases (if they have complex filters or other CPU-bound
>functions), various other types of real-time simulators (flight
>simulators, etc.), and some types of math and database mining
>software.
>
>Ordinary office applications consume virtually no processor at all and
>will run very nicely on less than premium processors.
>
>Servers will also run nicely on more modest processors if they are not
>CPU-bound. Often disk access or memory limits or Net pipelines limit
>server performance more than processors.
>
>As for AMD vs. Intel, I prefer Intel. AMD processors I had
>self-destructed when the CPU fans failed, because they contained no
>overtemp production on the chip. Intel processors will throttle
>themselves down if they overheat, saving the processor (and usually
>allowing the machine to continue running) until the cooling problem
>can be fixed.


Or just use a mainboard that has the option to shut down when it gets
too hot. Any decent mainboard will have the option and you don't have
to buy intel to get it.
.

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