Intel vs AMD vs Cyrix

[a12ctic]

Do they even make Cyrix CPUs anymore? I thought the company collapsed way back in the late 90's.

if im not mistaken, the cyrix chips were continued by a company called via technologies? http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/ not exactly sure though correct me if im wrong...

[AlexK]

Looks like this should explain it:
http://www.intel.com/business/bss/pr...g/overview.htm
Of course, it doesn't sound too Linux friendly:

In desktop and laptop PCs and entry-level workstations, HT Technology takes advantage of the multithreading capability that's built in to Windows* XP and many advanced applications. Multithreaded software divides its workloads into processes and threads that can be independently scheduled and dispatched.

Actually HT works just perfectly in linux, my dad's laptop has a P4 3.2 GHz processor with HT. as long as it is on and you choose to compile/install a smp kernel, you can take advantage of HT (which is not a lot at the moment). In SuSE the system just appears as a dual-processor system. Only slight advantage i have seen is that it no longer seems to "stutter" as much while burning dvd's and surfing net/listening to music at the same time.

on the original topic, I myself prefer AMD cpu's due to the fact that these days they kick pretty much any PC cpu (maybe with exception of G5) and are cheaper (performance and heat wise) than anything intel put out these days.

[SpaceSquad]

Do they even make Cyrix CPUs anymore? I thought the company collapsed way back in the late 90's.

if im not mistaken, the cyrix chips were continued by a company called via technologies? http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/ not exactly sure though correct me if im wrong...

yep, did a quick google search:

http://news.com.com/Via+takes+on+Int..._3-227846.html

[George Harrison]

I'm an AMD man all the way.

Intel was king "back in the day" but they are falling behind now. They were at the top, first ones to use the L1 and L2 cache at the same time, first ones to use the L3 too. Pentium Pros, PII's, all revolutionary. If you look at PC hardware history you will see the Intel was at the top and AMD was the lesser cousin to all Intel procs. Now it's pretty much the exact opposite.. AMD is the choice of a new generation (especially those who custom build). I will say that there is nothing more stable than an Intel board, Intel proc, and MS Windows, they all go together quite nicely which is why you see Dell's and things of that nature with that set up.