People,
Why this brand loyalty and what the kids seems to have renamed to fanboyism? All these discussions here at Toms Hardware are just completely beyond me. What has AMD OR Intel ever done for you personally to deserve live long support?
Is it too difficult to comprehend to just go with the product that gives you the best price - performance ratio?
The last few years it's been AMD leading the enthusiast pack, no doubt about that, but would it be such a bad thing to have a faster Intel in your system?
Mind, I'm running 3 desktop systems, all with AMD processors (Opteron 165, 64X2 3800, XP3000). I'm also running a Pentium M laptop. All these products are rock solid.
Despite the fact I've been running mostly AMD over the last 6 years, if Intel can come up with something better for a reasonable price I'll be buying Intel next. And it sure looks they got a winner this time.
The only problem I have with Conroe is the arrival of trusted computing / DRM, but I guess AMD will follow suit, so there won't be much choice in that department.
@SumDumGuy - I just went through 15 pages of mayhem... I can't take no more!!! :tongue: