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Originally Posted by TacoShack
ah really its way slow then intel geezs ;l
i just saw this video on youtube where the person took the fan off an intel processor and it didnt smoke or anything it was fine then they did it to a amd and it smoked and burnt out ;l man i thought i could of saved 100 dollars but no wonder amd is cheap i mean my intel celeron is running vista right now hard to belive LOL and this comp is 7 years old
my budget for cpu prob 100-150
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That's actually right on the money. I have two burned out X2s here. Went up in smoke, even with the fans on them. Intel will clock themselves back when they overheat, or they'll shut down. AMD? *sizzle* *sizzle*.
Really, there's no comparison. People want something for nothing, or at least get the illusion they're getting something for nothing. Most people that preach AMD have no clue where AMD excels and where it doesn't.
AMD X2s have one strength... Megaflops. This has an extremely limited practical application. I do have a client that needs that, and thus for him I designed a stellar AMD system.
Otherwise? They're hopeless. I have another dead AMD X2 sitting here at my feet... And the other one at my feet was an X2 Compaq that went up in smoke.. I rebuilt it with Intel/Asus.