I was very skeptical of AMD. I remember I bought an AMD about five
years ago and it was not a good experience. About four months ago my
brother had a garage sale and he wanted to sell his new computer to
me. I asked what model is it, and he said AMD, etc, etc.

When he said AMD I was truly skeptical and said sure because he was my
brother. I thought the AMD box was slow (based on past experience) and
decided to use it as a simulation server. Something that I could leave
running.

Well.... Something funny happened. My main work station which happens
to be a dual core, and the other servers are dual core were 15% slower
in flat out simulation speed than the AMD. I was t'eed off because the
AMD was cheaper and yet faster. 15% to most folks is not much. For me
it is a world of diference. One simulation run takes 10 hours on a
dual core on the AMD it was under 9 hours. Multiply that by about 100
simulations and you are saving days...

So in the end I don't really care about more MGHz, or what have you. I
just care about real life processing power.

Christian Gross