Amithony wrote:
tokyoracer wrote:
Simple answer, go AMD.
I would advise against it. The Athlons I have had experience with have been unreliable at best. Although once you get a good cooling system, it seems to go ok. Much more high maintenance in my opinion.
Just get a PPC and a playstation if you want the latest games 
I built my current AMD X2 4800+ about 1 year ago, not a single crash on winxppro. Its plenty fast for what i need to do and an equivalent Intel system would cost about 35% more. Just built a media center PC same cpu with two hd tv tuners and a graphics card that outputs hdmi using mediaportal...for $450: I can record/burn free to air, store my favourite dvd's cd's, setup Nintendo64, SNES NES, PSone Mame Winuae emualtors to play games. Would I have been able to do this if there was no AMD, for that price? Support the underdog otherwise you watch you'll be paying three g's for a PC, it wasn't that long ago that we did...
