Originally Posted by Cralor
I doubt this is still true, but back in the day, if you took the heatsink off of a running computer playing a video game, and you used an Intel processor, it would just freeze up. If you did the same with an AMD, it would catch on fire. I believe this was because of the lack of features the AMD had to prevent this. It is most likely not a problem now, but funny nonetheless.
Anyway, both AMD and Intel processors are good. Intel, like already posted, markets their speeds with Floating Point. I believe AMD is there to keep Intel on the ball. 
I am currently using AMD, so I'm not saying it is bad, but I've got an Intel ready to be put together. |
Well, this was the original Athlon. There was no automatic underclocking on any AMD cpu up to this point, was deemed an unnecessary expenditure. However, the good folks at Toms Hardware pointed out the need for such a feature and AMD put it in all chips made after that. And, cralor, if 2002 is your idea of "back in the day" .... damn I'm old...