Basically my dad needs a new pc at his work. He owns a gas station and all he needs is space to store cctv backups and register backups. It does not need too much cpu power. Our computer guy wants to give us AMD Sempron 2.8ghz but its single core. for like $50 more he can get us pentium dual 2.8ghz. For running windows 7 pro (need xp mode) will a single core cut it for no lag? I usually am an expert at this stuff but I have no idea how modern single cores are because I went straight from pentium 3 to core i7.

Buy a Core 2 Duo. AMD is [cabbage]ty quality, if you need something reliable, get intel. Pentium is outdated, so is Core 2 Duo, i might even suggest a quad core processor. If he runs a gas station i guess he has an okey budget to work with.

Use a Intel i5 Dual Core. It'll do the job. If he uses XP for the whole thing, It might be better to just install XP instead of Win7

Buy a Core 2 Duo. AMD is [cabbage]ty quality, if you need something reliable, get intel. Pentium is outdated, so is Core 2 Duo, i might even suggest a quad core processor. If he runs a gas station i guess he has an okey budget to work with.

Yey, another one.

 

Crap quality? Do they break more often than Intel? Do they burn up more often than Intel? Or do they come in two pieces when you pack it up as compared to Intel?

Please let me know, because i haven't read during the last few years that AMD cpu tend to blow up more often than Intel.

AMD produces good cpu's for the low-mid range.

Buy a Core 2 Duo. AMD is [cabbage]ty quality, if you need something reliable, get intel. Pentium is outdated, so is Core 2 Duo, i might even suggest a quad core processor. If he runs a gas station i guess he has an okey budget to work with.

Yey, another one.

 

Crap quality? Do they break more often than Intel? Do they burn up more often than Intel? Or do they come in two pieces when you pack it up as compared to Intel?

Please let me know, because i haven't read during the last few years that AMD cpu tend to blow up more often than Intel.

AMD produces good cpu's for the low-mid range.

 

 

First of all, AMD has made some huge steps in processors and the current models are VERY respectable. Second, do not get a quad. There are not enough programs out right now and there wont be for a while that have the ability to take advantage of a quad core...

 

Don't worry about the quality of AMD.

 

Check out this site:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

 

Kinda fun just to look and see the differences in each processor. From the site you can search the models that you are considering buying and make your decision there.

 

For the intel/AMD fight, go with intel if you plan on going into the ix series otherwise you wont see a difference.

 

Just for good measures I'm on a intel 2.4 macbook pro so I am far from being anti-intel :P

Don't worry about the quality of AMD.

Agreed. I've been running AMD for the past 3 ½ years and it has served me well.

Not to steal the topic, but are the Hex-Core as stable as a Intel i7 Quad? I've heard there's been a few problems reguarding heat.

Key point, just what is the particular Sempron?

 

If its the old style Socket A "2800+" then it's less powerful than a Pentium D @ 2.8GHz (the entry level D820).

 

If it's a newer style Sempron @ 2.8GHz, then it's actually more powerful than the Pentium D

 

The P4 / Pentium D "netburst" architecture was not Intel's finest moment - it was meant to have great clock scalability due to massive pipelining, but the power consumption scaled much faster than the clock rate.

Buy a Core 2 Duo. AMD is [cabbage]ty quality, if you need something reliable, get intel. Pentium is outdated, so is Core 2 Duo, i might even suggest a quad core processor. If he runs a gas station i guess he has an okey budget to work with.

Yey, another one.

 

Crap quality? Do they break more often than Intel? Do they burn up more often than Intel? Or do they come in two pieces when you pack it up as compared to Intel?

Please let me know, because i haven't read during the last few years that AMD cpu tend to blow up more often than Intel.

AMD produces good cpu's for the low-mid range.

 

No, but above $150, Intel CPUs constantly outperform their equally priced AMD counterpart.

 

I would spend the extra to get the Pentium, but it all depends on the HDD space, he may be better off buying an extra 500gb HD for that price. Running Windows 7, one core is pushing it. Of course you also want to look at the graphics chips it the models, an old semperon mobo may not even have lagless video. Also check the RAM and see if it is upgradable, W7 needs 1.5Gb, but I wouldn't want to run it on anything less than 3.

 

I don't believe that Pentium D was built around the same architecture as Pentium IV, but I could be wrong about that.

 

@Tim - I'm not sure about instability, but I know that the AMD x6 processors get blown away in almost every field by Core i7, and that is only going to get worse once Sandy Beach becomes available.

Cant overclock AmD without breaking them, and many friends of mine have had problems with there amd cpus whereas i have a Core i7 920 @ 4GHz with just a air fan.

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