The reason for my inquiry is because in the mags Intel always fares much better in the bench tests, while AMD users tell a somewhat different story. Now why is that?
Intel has always had a better floating-point unit (FPU) built into their processors which translates into better performance for FPU-intensive applications (games and graphics). AMD has traditionally had the weaker FPU in comparison and usually lags behind Intel. This doesn't mean that AMD makes bad processors, they are very reliable work horses and significantly price less than Intel processors. If your major applications are very FPU-intensive, getting an Intel processor will make sense for now. Things will get more interesting when AMD K7 comes out since reported benchmarks suggest that the K7 FPU will finally kick Intel FPU where it hurts the most and Intel will have to do some catching up. Christopher Reimer -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>