Originally Posted by V_RocKs

A friend of mine asked me why I bought an AMD 64x2 Dual core when Intel makes a far superior product.

Here is why:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6389077-1.html


To make it simple, AMD offered to test their processors against Intel and Intel said, no thanks... So CNET decided to do the testing anyway...

Appication Performance? AMD
Gaming? AMD (32% faster)
Multitasking? AMD
Photo Editing? AMD
MP3 Encoding? AMD
Video Encoding? AMD
Price vs Performance? Overwhelmingly AMD

AMD is like Nasty Dollars, you should join them....