Intel or AMD processors?

[dahuman]

fordy said:

1337 Gamer said:

AMD all the way. Sure Intel's CPU's are higher performing but AMD's $/Performance is hard to beat. Plus ive been a PC gamer for long enough to remember how shitty Intel used to be and know the same things gonna happen if they take over again.

Apparently you haven't been a gamer long enough to know that back in the mid '90s, Intel was the only way to go, and the 'cheap and nasty' sector was filled by the likes of AMD and Cyrix.

I have owned 1 AMD system. An AMD 133, which worked on a 486 DX4 board. It lasted two weeks. I have not looked back since.

lol and I've had first gen athlons go up in smoke as soon as I turned the power on to test the part, but that doesn't mean improvements weren't made, they later introduced safe locks so the xp series were fine, but intel's auto down clock in p4 was better of course, either way though, AMD is pretty good these days, and their budget CPUs are good if you are only looking for gaming. I'm using my PC as a total beast so I need i7 class yet don't need x58 =P. 860@4GHz win!