AMD or Intel?

[olds]

With the price drop in Intel chips, what would be the better deal for me? I need to upgrade this PII 400. If I go AMD 1 GIG, I need a mobo, cpu, power supply and possibly a cooling system. With Intel 1 GIG I need the same with the exception of the cooling system. The AMD is $200.00 and the PIII is $288.00 Basically, the cost of the cooling system would offset the difference in CPU prices. Are there any other differences that I should consider? Thanks

 

[jamesbond007]

Hey there. I'm actually selling my AMD system to a friend. (AMD 1Ghz, Asus A7V, 30GB HDD, etc) I'm switching to an Intel system because that seems to be the MOST reliable format I've seen. My friend runs an Asus CUSL2 motherboard and an Intel Pentium III 800Mhz and he has no problems what-so-ever. I've had a lot of compatibility problems with Windows 2000 as well as stability problems as well. I've tried a countless number of drivers, patches, fixes, etc, and yet my system can't compare to his stability. I'm planning on an Asus CUSL2, Pentium III 1Ghz, 512MB RAM, (2) IBM HDDs, etc. It's going to be a very nice system. I know many people have SAID that they have reliable systems, but you can't always trust what a person says. I've actually SEEN and USED my friends computer and I performed operations that would normally lock mine up and yet his flies without problems. It's all up to you, but I believe that the 'Wintel' combination really does exist, but maybe not for long. I've had excellent performance on my AMD system, but stability and reliability seems to lie only within and Intel-based system. I run mainly Windows 2000, too. I should have my system complete within the next 2 weeks, so I'm pretty excited. Good luck and may the power be with you!

 

[Priit]

I've heard of troubles with W2k and T-bird, but it really looks more like Microsoft has screwed up again (like they always do ). I haven't seen any T-bird/Duron that would be unstable with some Unix-like OS and I do have about 20 of them running in neighbourhood. If both upgrade path are equally expensive to you, then it's really hard to recommend one over another (cause both are good). What's that you mostly do with your computer ?

 

[olds]

My uses are online gaming, photoshop, cruising the web, and word processing.

 

[Priit]

Well, IMHO T-bird is the way to go then...

 

[Vyle]

It's been my experience that most stability problems are software related and/or user inexperience. Too often someone has one bad experience with a product and all of a sudden that product 'sucks'. You can do what you want but I'd go for a T-bird. You can get a T-bird 1.1 ghz for less than a PIII 1 ghz.

 

[Zephyr]

could it be you didn't install SP1? w/o it Win2K & Via KX/KT133 should be a pretty unstable combo from what I've heard. With that said I've recently run Win2K w/o SP1 on a KT133A with no stability problems what-so-ever.

Furthermore I run Win2K on my main box, Athlon 650 on AMD751 wich has run stable for 3 months now (only hiccups I've had was with a tekram SCSI adaptor which isn't supported in Win2K, and that is a 100% platform unrelated problem)

But hey.. you can't always trust what people say

I'd go with the Tbird over the PIII any day because Tbird is generally the better architechture IMHO