Intel vs. AMD Processors

[JJCarEnthusiast]

which processor is faster? my dad kasi is buying a laptop for me (i suggested HP pavilion series) im gonna use it for internet surfing, some offline games and doing / researching for school projects. which processor would be best?

and btw, any other suggestion than HP pavilion?

thanks guys..

[Hanren]

which processor is faster? my dad kasi is buying a laptop for me (i suggested HP pavilion series) im gonna use it for internet surfing, some offline games and doing / researching for school projects. which processor would be best?

and btw, any other suggestion than HP pavilion?

thanks guys..

There are some hardware issues about the HP Pavilion (not all HP pavilion series though). My father in-law sent us one from the states (AMD X2 Turion processor). After 4 months of use, the wireless connection became erratic. When we search the Internet about the problem, HP admitted the problem about the need to update the BIOS so they need to recall those units.
So we sent back the unit back to the states through UPS.

But there are a lot of Laptop makers who have already decided to use AMD instead of Intel (HP i think is one of them).

It's difficult to choose between the two. I currently have a Neo Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 - mabilis kumain ng battery power compared to the AMD-powered HP pavilion.

The processor is a major factor in terms of performance But you also need to consider memory size (RAM), video memory, Hard disk capacity, etc. Of course, the bigger video and RAM, the better would be the performance.

[JJCarEnthusiast]

woah.. how about HP Pavilion DV6700T (or z if i prefer AMD)? may mga reported problems ba nun? pero in terms of performance, mas ok ang AMD? may nabasa akong post eh na gamers prefer AMD than intel.. anong year po nangyari yun? na ayos na naman siguro ng HP yan diba? hopefully..

ram will be (i prefer) 2gb, hd is 120gb (none lower though), graphics card is Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 - For Core 2 Duo Processors (and that's stock), intel processor is core 2 duoi T9300 (2.5ghz) while the AMD is turion 64 x2 dual core mobile technology gold edition TL-68 (2.4ghz)

mas ok po amd o intel? ok ah kung mas mahina sa battery ang AMD..

[Hanren]

woah.. how about HP Pavilion DV6700T (or z if i prefer AMD)? may mga reported problems ba nun? pero in terms of performance, mas ok ang AMD? may nabasa akong post eh na gamers prefer AMD than intel.. anong year po nangyari yun? na ayos na naman siguro ng HP yan diba? hopefully..

ram will be (i prefer) 2gb, hd is 120gb (none lower though), graphics card is Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 - For Core 2 Duo Processors (and that's stock), intel processor is core 2 duoi T9300 (2.5ghz) while the AMD is turion 64 x2 dual core mobile technology gold edition TL-68 (2.4ghz)

mas ok po amd o intel? ok ah kung mas mahina sa battery ang AMD..

With almost both Intel and AMD-based laptops having the same specs (2gig RAM, 120 gig HDD, etc), I would get the AMD-based laptop.

Btw, yung HP pavilion namin na nirecall is HP 2313CL. So I think yung series na namention mo eh hindi na kasama dun...

[sboogie]

an amd processor eats more power than intel processors so for laptops intel processor is the better one. amd is more of for gamers. intel is for multimedia and all around.

get the centino processor it saves a lot of energy

[JJCarEnthusiast]

hanren: buti naman..

sboogie: ah.. ganun pala. pero ok din po ang intel pag lagyan ng games? eh yung centrino? ok din daw yun pang games.. true? ako kasi games and all around use. ano po ang key features ng centrino sa ibang procesors? processor ba ang centrino? kasi may nakita akong lappy na may sticker na intel core 2 duo at centrino sa taas.. ano yun?

[Psylocke]

centrino actually doesn't mean anything technically speaking, it's pure marketing nonsense, so it's best to ignore the word "centrino"

core2 or turion it doesn't really matter much as long as you have 2g ram and a fast hdd. better concentrate on the rest of the system: does the keyboard suck? usb port placement. ergonomics. screen. etc.

if you want real games the intel graphics x3100 won't cut it. get a laptop with a dedicated graphics card. my other laptop here has a geforce 8700m 256mb gddr3 but still won't play Crysis smoothly. an x3100 won't even play old games like NFS most wanted smoothly...

[JJCarEnthusiast]

centrino actually doesn't mean anything technically speaking, it's pure marketing nonsense, so it's best to ignore the word "centrino"

core2 or turion it doesn't really matter much as long as you have 2g ram and a fast hdd. better concentrate on the rest of the system: does the keyboard suck? usb port placement. ergonomics. screen. etc.

if you want real games the intel graphics x3100 won't cut it. get a laptop with a dedicated graphics card. my other laptop here has a geforce 8700m 256mb gddr3 but still won't play Crysis smoothly. an x3100 won't even play old games like NFS most wanted smoothly...

ano? alang kwentang sticker lang ang centrino? it doesn't mean anything? why would they put a centrino sticker if it means nothing? you mean centrino is not a processor or anything that's inside your computer? OMG

[Psylocke]

ano? alang kwentang sticker lang ang centrino? it doesn't mean anything? why would they put a centrino sticker if it means nothing? you mean centrino is not a processor or anything that's inside your computer? OMG

that's right, centrino is just a sticker. it's not a chip or something that ticks. it's just intel's name for platforms with intel cpu, intel chipset and intel wifi.

actually centrino means "monopoly"

you could have a intel cpu and chipset with an atheros (or other brand) wifi which works as well or better than "centrino"

why? coz intel wants you to believe that centrino is some kind of magic that you gotta have intel has pretty good marketing

[donski]

AMD for me
[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=_l2e0mf3CcA"]YouTube - AMD 780G vs Intel G35[/ame]

[Jun aka Pekto]

that's right, centrino is just a sticker. it's not a chip or something that ticks. it's just intel's name for platforms with intel cpu, intel chipset and intel wifi.

actually centrino means "monopoly"

you could have a intel cpu and chipset with an atheros (or other brand) wifi which works as well or better than "centrino"

why? coz intel wants you to believe that centrino is some kind of magic that you gotta have intel has pretty good marketing

I doubt there's anything underhanded in Intel's marketing with Centrino/Centrino Duo. The Centrino moniker is just that, a moniker for having the three core Intel components.

Having said that, I do own a budget priced Toshiba AMD Turion X2 15.4" lappie:

AMD Turion X2 dualcore 1.8 ghz
2gb DDR2 ram
Radeon X1200
250gb 4200 rpm SATA hard drive
8x DVD dual layer burner
4in1 card reader
PC Expresscard slot
Atheros WiFi G wireless
4-pin firewire, svideo out, vga out, 4 x usb2, LAN, modem
Vista Home Premium

It's slower than most Core 2 Duos. It's video is actually a bit inferior to the X3100. But, I bought it mainly for email and web surfing plus video/dvd movie watching while traveling. So, I wouldn't feel the impact of those disadvantages. It did cost $200-$300 less than an equivalent C2D laptop at the time. That, I was well aware of. And that's really the only advantage a Turion X2 laptop has. Price and sometimes not even that.

[sboogie]

right now i'm using my Compaq Presario V3770TU(centrino c2d) which is very battery efficient than my wifes ACER Aspire 4920G-101G16N(c2d). so i think centrino is not a bogus because it works.

laptop is not made for hardcore gaming but still you still play some.

if your going for performance go for a pc.

build your own. like what i did and it gives a smile on my face when it play hard

[JJCarEnthusiast]

mga sir, centrino is not just a non sense sticker pala.. tama si sir sboogie na tipid sa batt ang centrino pero centrino is not a processor. its an intel technology that reduces the battery consumption, thus making baterry life longer. just read it on google.

sboogie: im not a hardcore gamer. we already have a desktop here so that's why my dad is buying me a lappy for my use. our desktop is just a p3 and cant install new games. im not just using a laptop gor just plain games. also for internet surfing and doing projects (ms word)..

donski: wow amd has better graphics. maybe because amd is good for games and intel is for all around daw...

[Psylocke]

right now i'm using my Compaq Presario V3770TU(centrino c2d) which is very battery efficient than my wifes ACER Aspire 4920G-101G16N(c2d). so i think centrino is not a bogus because it works.

baliktad bro... it's the acer that's centrino... so it's the centrino that has worse battery life

the compaq probably has better battery life because it doesn't have a separate graphics chip...

just to recap: centrino is not a chip, it's not some technology, it's not some power-saving magic...

it's simply a name intel has spent lots of marketing dollars on, and judging from the responses on this thread it's money well spent

[judoman]

mas ok po yung AMD processor at ATI video card na tandem pag dating sa graphics. magaling lang marketing ng nvidia at intel. imo.

sa HP pavilion may hardware issue yan. yung kapatid ko naka HP pavilion. sira yung dvd writer. di makapagwrite ng cd/dvd. check nya sa forum ng HP lahat ng nagrereport naka pavilion na laptop. just sharing

[roninblade]

i suggest Toshiba, Compaq, or Mac more than HP

[JJCarEnthusiast]

mas ok po yung AMD processor at ATI video card na tandem pag dating sa graphics. magaling lang marketing ng nvidia at intel. imo.

sa HP pavilion may hardware issue yan. yung kapatid ko naka HP pavilion. sira yung dvd writer. di makapagwrite ng cd/dvd. check nya sa forum ng HP lahat ng nagrereport naka pavilion na laptop. just sharing

kasama pa din dun ang dv6700z? oh no....

i suggest Toshiba, Compaq, or Mac more than HP

sir fyi compaq and hp are now merged.. mac? uh.. no way.. pangit yan.. kasi walang pambili toshiba ok din pero erpat ko kasi bibili. sa US. HP is US made daw and is the highend among other US lappys. while toshiba stands in japan. mas ok talaga ang toshiba kesa sa hp? wala pa naman akong nababasang masasamang review against hp pavilion. the cons that people say is just that hot left hend because the HD is placed under there. and the radiant/glossy finish makes a [SIZE=4]BIG [SIZE=2]finger print magnet. other than that, wala na. HP kasi talaga ang reccomend ng erpat ko.. research nalang ako sa toshiba[/SIZE][/SIZE]

[sboogie]

ay sorry the other way around pala yung laptop. cut and paste kasi ginawa ko. pero tipid talaga sa power consumption ang centrino.

huwag na makipagtalo hawak ko na e.

hehehe

para sa akin kasi important ang battery life ng laptop.

[A121]

Kung gusto mong mapasma, AMD ka na lang. :D

browse the notebookreview forums kung may time ka.

[JJCarEnthusiast]

ay sorry the other way around pala yung laptop. cut and paste kasi ginawa ko. pero tipid talaga sa power consumption ang centrino.

huwag na makipagtalo hawak ko na e.

hehehe

para sa akin kasi important ang battery life ng laptop.

no centrino for HP-Compaq? woah that's mean