Originally posted by Casper3699
Intels are slower than AMD
Now that is the stupidest generalisation I've heard in a long time.

What are you talking about? MPEG4-encoding? Games? Business apllications?

Here's a quote from John Carmack from id Software (DOOM, Quake series)
It is sort of interesting how I really haven't cared about the changes in processors since AMD introduced the Athlon. Intel was the clear favorite when AMD and Cyrix had shitty FPUs, but now it really doesn't matter much to us if someone chooses an Intel or AMD processor.
We may have some SIMD paths in the new codebase, but they certainly won't be as important as the graphics card in determining the gaming experience.
AMD used to be faster than Intel when it came down to MPEG-encoding (AMD's Duron 800 used to beat Intels Pentium 800, don't know about the current situation though).

And for business application use, does it matter how fast your CPU is? (I'm not talking about CAD-design and stuff here).

You also might want to check this out.

Or, if you really are interested in the Need for Speed (?) discussion: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardw...eviews/1826/1/ .