first up of course is to figure out which you prefer between AMD or Intel
right wrong we do not shop by brand we
shop by what delivers us the best performance features and quality for the
money we're spending and just to make this Crystal Clear AMD and Intel both
make extremely high quality microprocessors so let's move on to that
other stuff step one if you already have your PC and your upgrading is to make
sure you're shopping for CPUs that actually fit in the fracking motherboard
that you're planning to use don't feel bad about needing to look it up Intel
for example maintains current generation products across two different physical
sockets at any given time and often has a trailing older socket along with more
complex electrical incompatibilities so go ahead ask a friend next step is to
look at what delivers more bang for your buck within your target budget
Performance used to be simple the younger viewers may be surprised to hear
that not only did AMD and Intel CPUs used to perform the same clock for clock
but they even fit into the same motherboards at one point comparisons
were easy whoever had the faster clock speed was faster and the megahertz war
was born then everything started changing because the megahertz or
gigahertz or frequency of a CPU became
no longer any more meaningful than gauging the performance of a car by how
many RPMs the engine spins at I mean
yeah it's a it's a useful metric somewhat but only if we have other
information at the same time so let's talk about this other information number
one we need to know how much work a CPU
can perform with each of those Cycles how many instructions per clock it can
perform if CPU a ran at 2 GHz and did
one instruction per cycle and CPU B ran at 1 GHz and did two instructions per
cycle then they actually do the exact same amount of work so the only way to
measure which one is really better is by running real world tests but just like
putting a car on a Dyno and measuring Peak horsepower running one test or one
Benchmark isn't the be all and end all of CPU performance either modern CPUs
have multiple processing cores inside them and while some benchmarks will
measure the top speed of a single core with more power redirected to it in a
turbo mode other benchmarks will tell us more about how that CPU behaves with a
heavier load that's spread across all the processing course a multi-threaded
test and other tests will tell us you know if the CPU has enough C to keep up
with a particular workload in a perfect world you want to find websites that
test the exact applications you're using most frequently so you know exactly what
you're getting and that's the only way to figure it out but let's continue the
car analogy for some people it isn't just about how fast you go what about
Creature Comforts like air conditioning and cruise control CPU reviews from
reputable sites like tech report Hardware connects and PC perspective
will give you a rundown of other important information like power power
consumption heat output security features maximum supported memory
expected overclocking limits for Tweakers and so much more and once
you've got all of that information you are ready to make a non Fanboy tastic
decision about what gives you the best value for your money before plunking
down your hard-earned cashola but if all
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