Posted by xiaou2 on 5, 2000 at 12:14 AM:
In Reply to: Does the CPU matter much? Intel or AMD? I'm running an AMD k6-2 300 with 128 megs and some games are slower than others? Is this a cache thing with the processors? posted by rurdy4me on 4, 2000 at 9:05 PM:
There is a big difference between Intel and Amd.
I used to own a k62 500 and It still didnt beat friends PII 450.
Also, when upgrading to Athlon 650 - I had problems here and there so decided to switch to PIII 550. The PIII Smoked the Athlon and ran Mortal Komat at 120% (full throttle all options maxed). The Athlon only got 85%! and that was 100mhz faster with faster 133mhz memory...ect.
Someone suggested that its because the software is set to take advantage of Intels processors... but even so... I find it hard to believe so much difference. It could also be due to bad motherboard design as well. Maybe Intels floating point power is just plain superior... Or maybe they are really faster than what they say they are? (or AMDs are slower than what they say they are! :)
I think Amd is good if you need a cheap chip with decent speeds... but if you want power for emu's... stick to Pentiums.
PS: Ive got an ABit BE-62 MB... and its really flys. Ive noticed that some mb's are slow and cause processing power to drop dramatically.