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Originally Posted by Tri-ring
I wonder why everyone goes for Intel?
AMD's CPUs are great when you have a limited budget and want value for money.
The new Phenom II X3 are great money savers costing approx. half the price of full 4 cores.
If you are not doing intensive data mining and/or video rendering then you don't need top of the line CPUs anyways.
Right now I am planning on creating a HTPC to watch/record HDTV and Blu-disk with an Athlon II X3 405e and ASRock A790GMH/128M/A/ASR MOBO, the Blu disk drive will be a Panasonic UJ-120 which will not burn a hole in my pocket.
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Mine is an Intel Pentium Dual-Core Mobile T3400. I heavily influenced by this video footage as to why I prefer Intel over AMDs. Perhaps, this footage don't apply to newer AMD models that had improvements but then, don't Intel have improvements too?
Based on the information on the Phenom II X3, it looks as though it is better than my current 64-bit system as that it has 3 cores and also goes up to 3.1Ghz. Mine only costed around 700 bucks which is roughly 70,000 yen. Pretty cheap!