Look, I like AMD and Intel. I still have a Intel 386 and a AMD 486 sitting at home. I have been using both since then. But my only argument against AMD is A64. IMO, it was just a quick little job to try and keep ahead of Intel. No-one even knows if it's 64bit functions even work completely yet. I hear about people with A64's dying and not o/cing well all the time. Look at Intel, they were producing chips a good couple of years before AMD and they practicly invented x86 as to my knowledge. So in my opinion: INTEL>AMD>*.