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The Athlon 64 3000+, A Budget Gamer's Perspective
VL contributes a link to Viperlair's budget-conscious and game-oriented review of an AMD processor that's not on the bleeding edge, but makes a good showing for the money: "For the price of the Socket-939, you can pick up an A64 3000+, K8T800 based motherboard, and a decent mid-range video card. For gamers on a budget, I think the choice is obvious."
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Yeah that is just impossible because everyone on slashdot knows that AMD is always faster than Intel!
Yes, that's because AMD sucks. That and 3000+ means it's about as powerful as an into 3 GHz, which is about 200 MHz less than 3.2 GHz (I don't know much about processor clocking, but I'm guessing they do the same crap as hard drive people and use metric conversions rather than Gi/Mi/Ki blah blah)
Not to mention, it doesn't run 64-bit software.
Yeah, because ALL the software worth running is 64 bit!
/sarcasm
Because the vast bulk of intel chipsets have been fast, rock solid and 100% compatible, whereas the vast bulk of non-intel chipsets have been slow, buggy and about 75% compatible.
I don't buy intel based systems because they're faster or cheaper, I buy them because I know they're going to work. If you've got the time to troubleshoot and/or work-around the niggly little problems that seem to plague nearly every Athlon motherboard (and in particularly, the cheaper ones) on the market, they're a better buy - but if you don't, then they're not. Most businesses fall into the latter category - an hour's troubleshooting (or even just configuring with extra drivers, etc) costs nearly as much as any up-front savings.