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Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

amd and intel are probably the best thing that has happened to computers. AMD has always been popular for gamers because of amd's FX and 64 and X2 core designed to handle more gaming types of calculations, while intel has been popular for everything else esp video coding and editing etc.. but enyways lol ive had intel and i prefer amd

I think that the thing that most of us are trying to point out is that statements like the above don't make sense. While AMD was the king of gaming, Intel currently takes home the gold in almost every category, including gaming. Furthermore, FX is a relatively new invention, only coming into use with the introduction of the K8 (aka Athlon 64) chip, therefore not "always" being the reason for AMD's popularity with gamers. The initial root of that segment of the market probably has to do with the late 1980s and early 1990s AMD copies of Intel x86 chips offering identical performance and lower costs. Whatever experience you may have had with Intel is effectively null and void, as you've never owned a C2D or C2Q. Remember that these chips are vastly different from the P4s most people have grown accustomed to since 2003. While the fact that you prefer AMD is not in dispute, the claims of AMD's superiority, while they may have been true in the past, are, at the moment, completely unjustified and false.