why go intel for gameing?

[paulieb]

Every gaming machine I've built in the last 5 years has been AMD based, all the way back to my XP 1800+. The words "Bang for the buck" continue to ring loud and clear for me. I've never benched my current system against an Intel product, but I've never been less than pleased with my system's performance.

Current specs: PC power and cooling 370 watt PS (older)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+, S939
1 gig PC 3200 DDR
80 gig Seagate HD
250 gig Maxtor HD
Leadtek GeForce 6800 GT (AGP)
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Platinum
Asrock K8 Combo-Z motherboard (has S754 and S939, with DDR slots for each)
Sony Dual layer DVD-RW

[Roscoroo]

im not super biased .. but i do perfur amds
why ...
well back when we had our house fire a few yrs ago i had 3 pc's hooked up .
a brand new Northwood p-4 with all the bells and whistles at that time ,
a 933mhz pent 3 ,
and my old trusty 1.3ghz amd w/ the ecs k7s5a mb and the L2 cache jumped morgan cpu in it ..

when the wiring toasted in the kitchen .. it took out the p-4 (just toasted that puppy) the only thing i saved was the TI 4600 out of it ..

the p3 survived ... but its mb failed 3 months later ...

Now i'll give ya one guess which pc still lives ... now be aware that this is the only one that also got filled up with water ... and went thru hell ... along w/ getting shut down by eletrical storms several time since ...  YES the AMD still lives (I couldnt just part with it so i gave it to my son )  

 thats why I perfur amd .

[38ruk]

dont get me wrong ... when i said frustration , i ment it as intel always seemed to have a performance edge ove the amd's . I was never dissapointed in any of my systems ... well maybe the k6's heh     38