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Originally Posted by Dax
See all i hear about AMD is that they overheat and that they are unstable and suck...etc.. =\
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Originally Posted by holograph
Intel always been good to me, AMD on the other hand can be used in toasters.
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It does require a serious commitment just to keep up with PC technology, so such an out of date attitude is forgiveable. Today the opposite is true. AMD's chips run cool and Intel has major heat problems (the cooling they've started to require is comical). Intel had to give up on reaching 4GHz and adopt dual-core sooner than planned - and in a somwhat gimped kind of way. The days of just ramping up gigahertz is over; there's much more to CPUs than that and AMDs shorter pipelines proved the smarter design. $200 Athlons are outperforming $800 Intel offerings. There's no doubt among geeks that AMD will dominate the performance wars for at least the next couple of years. I'm no fanboy; I'm just painting a picture of the way things are right now. Hopefully Intel will come back with something competative because it's not good for consumers and actually slows progress when one company can afford to just rest easy knowing the other can't (yet) catch up.