Modern Intel/AMD Chipsets

[ninaholic]

I use Pentium M Dothan (2004) on my last 4 laptops. It is still powerful enough for all my needs. Many new Pentiums and Celerons are sh*** small-core Atom CPU now anyway and give me worse score in CPUmark99 (single thread) than Pentium M - lol.   

[Daniil]

ninaholic, welcome.
I can't say that Intel CPUs is s[beep]it today, big Core i7 is good. They are much powerful than any AMD.
But I prefer the AMD, because their marketing policy is more comfortable to me (If I want buy new CPU, I shouldn't replace half of PC, and they are much, much cheaper).
And, after all, main and most powerfull part in modern PC is not the CPU, but videocard.

UPD:

Many new Pentiums and Celerons are sh*** small-core Atom CPU now anyway and give me worse score in CPUmark99 (single thread) than Pentium M - lol.

This isn't correct test for check the performance of modern CPU, respectable Nina. Maybe you should check your CPU with УК-НЦ ИП1 software? It will show you that Intel Atom is slower than soviet КМ1801Ð'Ðœ2 CPU. Because it can't use well modern CPU instructions and extensions, same as CPUMark99 can't.

[humbert]

Certainly one big reason people buy AMD is precisely because the price is right. I've been using AMD forever and honestly my experience has always been positive. My FX-8350 runs like a champ, so much so that I see no reason to upgrade my desktop for at least another 3 years. Also, I'm using the stock cooler with came with the CPU and so far I have never had a problem, not even when running CPU-intensive apps. Of course I don't overclock - if I did then I'd invest in a better CPU cooler. Use AMD with confidence.