AMD VS. INTEL

Hi there,
I think quite honnestly at the moment that the only real difference is the price and maybe Intels homepage which supposedly makes use of features available "uniquely" to Intel procs.
I used to work at Intel - after they bought the company I was working for at the time - Shiva - and pratically all of our boxes were AMD based because of the price. These boxes were running a selection of OS's for different testing purposes and they all worked great. No difference with the Intel boxes.I have an AMD K6 at home which works faster than my office PIII.
Here are some sites which did some comparisons.

http://www.passmark.com/cpureview/
http://www.cpuscorecard.com/all_cpus.htm

Probably at the end of the day it will come down to "do you have the extra XXX$ to throw away ???" !!!

Just to expand on the first answer, I have 4 computers at home, 2 intel and 2 amd, I am running Win98 and Win2000 and all the same programs. I see absolutely no differences. They all run 24/7 with no blue screens, and no hangs!!! Find the computer you want depending on the other specs, and don't worry about intel vs amd.

Make sure all the software you are using is compatible with the AMD chip. Most home software is compatible with both however there are many instances where Corporate software is only compatible with Intel chips.

Payroll programs for example with all the built in security may not be compatible with AMD. The software we use isn't compatible and is what alerted me to this. After much investigation I have discovered it is due to security.

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