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Poll: What’s inside your rig, Intel or AMD?

Last month, I upgraded my old desktop PC. I have been a longtime AMD fan and for the last 5 years or so, have used almost all of their CPUs — Athlon, Sempron, AMD64+, and the X2. Even most of the dedicated servers I get runs AMD Opteron CPUs. They’re cheaper and does the job just fine.

However, during my latest upgrade, I switched to the other side — an Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz. I actually got the works — 4GB DDR2 800 RAM, Inno3D 8600 GTS 256MB DDR3 and a Gigabyte 3D Aurora.

Gigabyte 3D Aurora

The switch was prompted with the realization that at the top of the food chain, it looks like Intel has taken back the lead for some time now. In the lower end CPUs, AMD is may be seem neck and neck with Intel — Athlon 64 X2s vs. Intel Intel E4x00 C2D — but go up in the quad cores and you’ll see Intel becomes cheaper.

Has AMD lost the battle altogether? Has their “cheap but fast” brand label been diluted?

Our poll for this week will look into you CPU preferences — What’s inside your rig, Intel or AMD? For good measure, I also added in the poll IBM’s PowerPC (those running pre-Intel Macs) and Via processors.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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30 Comments

Kinnison says:

17 years ago

My rig’s still working after roughly 4 years. It has the Intel Pentium 4, 2Ghz, 1.525V max., with a System Bus of 400MHz. Kinda old, but still does the job.
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Andre says:

17 years ago

Intel used to be more expensive, and AMDs cheaper, but hotter. But now with the multicore’s AMD is having a hard time catching up even in the server area and with the processors are energy efficient. Even with AMDs purchase of ATI, they seem to be not doing so good. Its surprising, I wouldnt have forseen this a few years back but its happening.
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Andre says:

17 years ago

BTW Dual Quad Core Servers are the best :)
How come you didnt get a 9600 Nvidia?
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Galwin Fabian says:

17 years ago

I have been an Intel loyalist and prolly will continue to be.

As for graphics, I love Nvidia.
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Chris Ongsuco says:

17 years ago

Got a Quad Core since it first came out. It was darn expensive that time but worth it.
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Lucien Tiojanco says:

17 years ago

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ here :-)
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BrianB says:

17 years ago

ha ha ha,

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JC John SESE Cuneta says:

17 years ago

Intel for Office type of usage
AMD for Gaming

Same goes with:
PC for programming
Mac for graphics designing

My first rig is Intel Core 2 Duo.
Building my second rig, will be an AMD.
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marco says:

17 years ago

I’ve been an Intel user for the longest time. I’m thinking of upgrading my desktop to AMD because I thought it would be cheaper. Now, I’m having second thoughts.
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jhay says:

17 years ago

Loyal Intel fanboy here. :D

The my first notebook might run on AMD.
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