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Originally Posted by tical
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If you want to look beyond the processors you first listed, consider
that AMDs multicore processors are much more "multicore" than Intels.
AMDs chips have two or four almost complete processors on the chip.
Intel's don't - they have one each of most of the components, shared
between the "cores". It's like the difference between a burger meal
with two meat patties on the Intel side, and two complete hamburgers
on the AMD side. So if you plan to do a lot of multi-tasking where the
background tasks are actively doing something, an AMD may be a
better choice. We've used both to run multiple complete operating
systems. In that kind of torture test, the AMD will be much faster
because each core is complete, with it's own FSB memory controller, etc.
I am a software guy, not a hardware expert, so this information may
be outdated, but it was correct several months ago.
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