NEW COMPUTER!! But which one too choose...

[Daisy_Dyme]

[XHunter]

[Daisy_Dyme]

[Lexica-chan]

Well, the obvious answer is "well, one begins with an A, one begins with an I....", but that doesn't help you so much.

Both have very similar instruction sets, so that's the main reason that programs can run on both without really that much headache (by 'instruction sets', I mean that the bytes that define an executable program... the bytes need to be translated into instructions, and that translation is done by the processor).

There is a catch though... the two aren't ~entirely~ the same. I think most of the differences in operation lie in some secondary operations (I don't remember the details, but I did look it up once).

I've actually run into a more tangible difference, a few years ago, with an AMD processor. At the time, my uni desktop computer was an AMD K6-2 233MHz computer, which we got for a discount. All seemed OK, but here's the quirk: there was an instruction missing which was used by XviD for decoding the video. Whenever I tried to play an XviD video in VirtualDub, for example, it would crash. Really weird. After that first semester with that computer, got myself the desktop computer that I'm using now.

[XHunter]

Ranked: 108
Samples: 8
Average CPU Speed: 1799 Hmz


Ranked: 114
Samples: 89
Average CPU Speed: 2223 Hmz

From the spec and benchmarking differences shown on http://www.cpubenchmark.net/, I would have to say that the Intel Pentium Dual E2160 1.80GHz is a better chipset to go with.

[Daisy_Dyme]

I checked that site and Intel was ranked in the top 10. I'm using one now and I never had problems with it.
So I gues my choice has been made, thanks for the info.

Unless... someone else has something too add?

[XHunter]

Well I like AMD CPUs, but recently AMD has dropped the ball by trying to get the GPU and the CPU in one thing allowing Intel to get ahead of them. But yeah, that CPU looks like it will be good.

[SILVEI2]

[Daisy_Dyme]

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