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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 26227" data-attributes="member: 828">I didn't compare Intel 1.2GHz with AMD 1.2GHz because both are very old. I had to put 1.2GHz because there is a Pentum4. I should have spoken specifically about Intel Pentium Prescott and up because they and A64 belong to the same era.Anyway, going with AMD or Intel...it's your personal choice. If someone's PC is having problems such as random freezes, it's his problem mainly. Not the processor's. Maybe the heatsink is loose (not tightly mounted), maybe the ari inside the casing is being blocked and the cool air can't move freely inside the case, maybe it's not the processor - bad RAM can easily do those things. To tell the truth, I have never seen and AMD or Intel CPU being burned since I first had a computer in 1997. On the other hand, I have seen every other possible component getting burnt or malfunctioning. It's really amazing that CPU is supposed to be the hottest thing inside the chasis (except for maybe modern GPU's which easily get to 90C or more) and still doing really well. So I never check the CPU when it comes to PC malfunction. However, this also had a negative effect on me. Recently my PC also faced with rnadom restarts (I mean, BSODs) and I checked every possible thing except the CPU. They all turned out to be working fine. But I still got the errors. I later found out the problem was with the heatsink. It would losen a bit if the chasis is moved and after that I would get the BSODs. I fixed it tightly and I haven't got an error ever since.Currently, Intel have the best CPUs: Conroe. However, they are ridiculously overpriced. Some are selling the sub $300 E6600 for arund $500, because the demand is very high compared to the low supply. So there are still a lot of people who buy A64 X2 systems. In fact, AMD had the best sales last month I think. Still, people who buy new computers (who move from low end dual core systems to high end dual core systems) are saying that they aren't noticing any real world difference between the new Conroe system and the old AMD System. This is not on specific applications, like encoding etc. For general usage, the biggest bottleneck is the hard drive. So a person with an old CPU and a 10000RPM Raptor is enjoying his computer more than a person having a Conroe E6700 and a normal 7200RPM HDDs.</blockquote>

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