OK, first off to Lasereth, I hope you don't think I was trying to attack you or anything. Pretty much everything you said in your summary above is what I had already agreed with on my earlier posts. The only thing that I think we disagreed upon was the price of the FX51 which I thought was $799 and you say is $750. I think we are both right in the sense that mine was for a retail, not sure if yours was or not. Also, I am not a 100% crazy intel person. I have built computers with Intel chips, and I think they are very good chips. But I have also built computers with AMD chips, and have been pleased with them aswell. I just wanted to clear the air so to speak. Also, I think the MOST important thing to realize with all this is what rocinante2003 and cas305 said, which I totally agree with. To be honest I was worried back in the day when Cyrix, AMD, and Intel were in the CPU department. I got very woried when Cyrix had to pull out, and AMD was just about to, because that would mean Intel would have a monopoly on the market, and they could push up the prices and slow down the R&D because there was no competition. That was back in the days with the K6's. I remember all the problems surrounding that chip line, with the heat and speed issues. But luckily for US consumers, AMD rolled out the Athlon's and thats when the fun began
Therefore I hope that both Intel and AMD continue to out do each other, so things will keep getting faster and cheaper.
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