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Well this was touched briefly in other threads previously and I thought I would make this an official topic.
I'll put my thoughts down on this topic here just to start off, feel free to post your experience, views and opinions.
I'd take an AMD over an Intel anyday, when looking for PC's as soon as I see a PC with the Intel logo on it I turn away. While it's true Intel is a little faster, AMD has a lot better cooling and overall performance. An example of this is we had two laptops, an AMD one that was about 2 years old and used heavily and an Intel that was like 6 months old. Both had identical specs however the Intel one kept overheating playing STO but the AMD one didn't. I used to run Intel myself and with the amount i use my PC's I could only get a solid two years out of them, yet with the AMD's I have been running this PC even more and have gotten about twice that life out if and apart from some small performance issues that could just be my install or one a HD on it's way out I haven't had any issues whatsoever.
I'll put my thoughts down on this topic here just to start off, feel free to post your experience, views and opinions.
I'd take an AMD over an Intel anyday, when looking for PC's as soon as I see a PC with the Intel logo on it I turn away. While it's true Intel is a little faster, AMD has a lot better cooling and overall performance. An example of this is we had two laptops, an AMD one that was about 2 years old and used heavily and an Intel that was like 6 months old. Both had identical specs however the Intel one kept overheating playing STO but the AMD one didn't. I used to run Intel myself and with the amount i use my PC's I could only get a solid two years out of them, yet with the AMD's I have been running this PC even more and have gotten about twice that life out if and apart from some small performance issues that could just be my install or one a HD on it's way out I haven't had any issues whatsoever.