Is this still the situation?

[Clark]

Several years ago when I built an AMD processor based computer, the AMD
processors seems to run hotter and seemed to require more cooling than the
Intel chips. Is this still the case or do the newer AMD processors seem to
run a little cooler?

Thanks,
Clark

 

[kony]

Several years ago when I built an AMD processor based computer, the AMD
processors seems to run hotter and seemed to require more cooling than the
Intel chips. Is this still the case
no

or do the newer AMD processors seem to
run a little cooler?

Not a little cooler, much cooler than Intel's.
Add a heatsink and the difference "seems" somewhat lessened,
but still there. It was only a very short timeframe in
which Athlon T'bird was hotter than P3, and Athlon XP
Palomino hotter than the contemporary P4.

At the moment Athlon XP (T'Bred) core came out (now over two
years ago) the highest end P4 was always hotter than the
highest end Athlon from that point till today, and so-on
down the product lines. This considers only full load
temps, at idle the Athlon XP may need a motherboard that
properly supprts ACPI cooling. Athlon 64 does not have this
issue, is cooler than equivalent P4.

 

[Noozer]

Several years ago when I built an AMD processor based computer, the AMD
processors seems to run hotter and seemed to require more cooling than the
Intel chips. Is this still the case or do the newer AMD processors seem
to run a little cooler?

The opposite is true today... Intel CPU's run MUCH hotter than the AMD
counterparts.

If I was to build a PC today I'd base it on the Socket 939 AMD chips.

 

[Clark]

Thanks folks. I am getting ready to put together a new one and haven't
researched systems in a couple of years.

Clark