AMD vs. Intel

[lonewolfxix]

Intel right now have a lot of performance advantages over AMD if you spend $200 on your cpu etc. but when you're in the $100 or so market AMD have a clear advantage over Intel especially when you don't intend to overclock your PC. Intel used to be way behind AMD.. look at all the old rigs being sold on ebay that are custom built gaming rigs.. alot of them are based around the old socket 939 and athlon64, why? AMD were better back then.. but.. time has progressed.. Intel with it's huge marketshare (always has.. as it used to be cheaper as AMD only got integrated graphics a few years ago i believe.. first board i saw with integrated graphics on AMD was a an abit nf7-m in 2003 or something) it was the obvious choice for turnkey system builders like Dell and Acer etc. all those big brand names... and AMD was for the more hardcore pc users and those who knew what they're doing.. now AMD with their low prices but awesome stock performance dominate the lower end of the market and the turnkey platforms can churn out some pretty good results when you put in a new mid range graphics card and some decent ram