difference AMD/Pentium

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What's the difference between AMD and Pentium???

I would like to buy a new system.

Who can answer my question.

thanks
Lolke
 
What's the difference between AMD and Pentium???

I would like to buy a new system.

Who can answer my question.

thanks
Lolke
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The AMD Athlon 64s are faster and consume much less power then the Intel
Pentium 4s.
 
LOLKE SCHADENBERG said:
What's the difference between AMD and Pentium???

I would like to buy a new system.

Who can answer my question.

thanks
Lolke
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AMD chips are modern, efficient, cool running and support Direct Connect
Architecture, Hypertransport Bus, and On-Die Memory controller. Intel are
the same ole chips on the same old architecture that they have been
producing for the last 6 years. Intel has nothing new to offer. AMD has
been innovating, setting new standards, and is currently the leader in
sales, power, and "band for the buck". FWIW, Microsoft uses only AMD
processors in it's campuses where they are developing the next version of
Windows, now code-named Vista.

Bobby
 
LOLKE said:
What's the difference between AMD and Pentium???

I would like to buy a new system.

Who can answer my question.

thanks
Lolke
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Pentium? Isn't that some kind of satinic symbol?
 
General Schvantzkoph said:
The AMD Athlon 64s are faster and consume much less power then the Intel
Pentium 4s.
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Not to mention cooler running.The new Pentium dual cores get so hot that
Intel couldn't use the higher powered processors in them.
 
Some of the differences:

AMD uses on-cpu memory controller (as I read on MaximumPC mag., this
contributes to the overall better performance).
AMD (Athlon64 and all other -64 families) support 64-bit datawidth
capability. AMD is the first set the 64-bit standard (AMD64, or X86_64 as
in GCC), while Intel follows it.

AMD is also the first in x86 world to implement dual-core, and will be the
first to release quad-core.

Based on many benchmarks performed by diverse testers, AMD outperforms
Intel's Pentium4 in many applications, especially the ones w/ rich
floating-point computations.

Not sure about temperature, because I have also Pentium-m based laptop,
and it is cool, even cooler than AMD64 3400 laptop (that I also have).
But I think is more something to not-good-design issue from Compaq (I have
Compaq Presario R3000z based on AMD64 3400+. Lowest clock: 800 MHz, max
clock: 2.2 GHz). My other laptop is IBM T42p
with Pentium-m processor (lowest clock: 600 MHz, max clock: 2.1 GHz).

The bottomline is, if you want to get overall performance or 64-bit, go
for AMD. If power is more important, I think Pentium-m is slightly
better.
 
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