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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aus_Snow" data-source="post: 4677438" data-attributes="member: 29112">Uh, no.The new Phenom IIs (or some of them, at least) are most certainly as good value as any Intel chips on the market. Also, their triples and duals across the range are, in some cases, easily as good value per dollar as well. And 'always reliable'? As in, implying that AMD is any less so? Rubbish, frankly. Please provide evidence, if indeed you can.But, before you or others go ahead and say it, I actually use Intel at the moment, so no, I am *not* some AMD fanboi or whatever. Mind you, I bought it (an E8400, which is still a solid choice, incidentally) when Intel was clearly the superior choice over much of the power range (and, let it be said, the *only* choice for very high end desktops, literally). Interestingly, prior to the reign of the Core 2 Duo (and associated chips), AMD in fact was ruling at most of the power levels, for some time. Their dual cores kicked the asses of Intel's shoddy offerings, which - funny that you should mention 'reliability' before - often ran very hot and consumed tons of power. Wonderful. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So, whatever AMD *or* Intel fanbois tell you (and yes, they certainly will try to tell you some, um, interesting things), the best approach boils down to this: do some research, read reviews, check out benchmarks from decent sites and prices from trustworthy shops, that kind of thing.If it even matters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Like, if you're into high-end graphics, video work, getting every last FPS for the latest game with everything maxed, or the like.</blockquote>

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