amd or intel

hi i am looking to buy a new laptop in time for football manager 09 coming out.I am just wondering what processor is best for vplaying

i prefer AMD but i know alot of people like intel, depends on the processor

There was a time when AMD were best for gaming, but Intels dual and quad cores are now the choice of most PC enthusiasts. so I'd recommend Intel every time

There was a time when AMD were best for gaming, but Intels dual and quad cores are now the choice of most PC enthusiasts. so I'd recommend Intel every time

Same as above, I was always die hard AMD fan, had a 2800+ barton core for a very long time but now days I can't really pass up an overclocked intel with how they perform in benchmarks across the board.

cheers what are good amd processors .all the decent intel 2 core e.g 2.2 ghz or above seem to be expensive. is there a real noticable difference from say 2.0 to 2.4

I use an mobile AMD sempron processor, and fm works perfectly fine, even with Live Messenger running as well. I belive you can use any processor that are installed in the computers for sale today. But Intels newest processors are currently the best.

no, there are actually no real difference from 2.2 to 2.4 for "normal" user like ourselves. fm gaming are not that process-consuming (sorry for bad language, but u probably understand)

What's your price range? Something like an Intel Core 2 E8400, E8500, or E8600 are excellent processors and not much more expensive than lesser cpu's, plus they can easily be overclocked. Heres a good place to check, his is just benchmarks for crysis but you can check other benchmarks if you like and filter by price.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/Crysis-1680x1050,818.html

i just got my laptop its got an intel duo and it works a treat

There was a time when AMD were best for gaming, but Intels dual and quad cores are now the choice of most PC enthusiasts. so I'd recommend Intel every time

whs

AMD are also selling off thier fab's .. Which may not be a smart move in the long term.

For Fm 09 you want as much CPU power as possible, so intel is better. Test your cpu with SuperPi ..

With any dual/quad core from intel you will get under 20s easy in the 1M bench - if you want to see the same with an AMD cpu, overclocking it to 3.2 is needed, which is very hard .

High Cpu power = faster loading times in FM, playing with all leagues and big database is really something that tress the cpu

Whichever you get, make sure it supports threading (which I guess is any dual core processor). My laptop is single core Intel Pentium M without threading ability and is what I normally play FM on. Then, out of curiosity, I installed FM08 on my AMD 64 X2 4800+ desktop PC and enabled threading...

Whoosh! I think it must've sped up by around a third at least. It's a shame that I have to use my desktop PC for other things, otherwise I'd have FM installed on it permanently.

I guess there's always windowed mode...

Personally I like AMD better. I've got a 64 dual core processor and it works brilliantly. However either will be great if you get a dual or quod core processor.

I've used amd for a long time but with the duo core and core 2 duo Intel took the lead. Today Intel is the smart choice if you're upgrading your PC.

you can sometimes get some awesome deals on AMD processors - i bought a dual core 6400 amd64 processor a couple of months ago for £50 - miles better value for money than the equivalent Intel processor.

However, if you can't find deals, Intel is the way to go at the moment.

I own 2 PCS

1 AMD dual core 2.2GHz with ATI1900 Sapphire & 2gb ram built 2006

1 Intel quad core 28Ghz with Nvidia280x(or something) & 3gb ram built 2008

*I built both PCs

My older PC is far more stable , never got any problems, drivers are super and it can play 99% of the games .

My newer PC is of course faster but not that faster , it can run smoothly 5 leagues in 08 . The Nvidia drivers are crap , i 've got many blue screens of death cases and temperature issues , if i had to built it all over again i would go with AMD+ATI .

Right now you can't deny yourself the power of intel. They are far ahead of AMD at the minute.

I own 2 PCS

1 AMD dual core 2.2GHz with ATI1900 Sapphire & 2gb ram built 2006

1 Intel quad core 28Ghz with Nvidia280x(or something) & 3gb ram built 2008

*I built both PCs

My older PC is far more stable , never got any problems, drivers are super and it can play 99% of the games .

My newer PC is of course faster but not that faster , it can run smoothly 5 leagues in 08 . The Nvidia drivers are crap , i 've got many blue screens of death cases and temperature issues , if i had to built it all over again i would go with AMD+ATI .

I find the opposite being better for myself. I used to have an AMD for years and went through a few graphics cards with it, both ATI and Nvidia. I upgraded to an AMD 64 when they came out but my new PC is an intel + nvidia and no problems whatsoever, all drivers have been great and haven't had any trouble playing any games at all on full detail or running FM08 with 55 leagues.