AMD Phenom Quad Core Processors

My XP 2400+ is still kickin'. Original heatsink and fan, a little thermal paste and it's been going strong.

I just bought a new laptop with the amd turion 64 x2 2.0 ghz processor and its great for me. Very smooth operating multiple memory heavy programs at once, such as photoshop, autocad and sketchup.

I haven't built a computer in awhile, so I'm not up on the latest and greatest top of the line AMD processors. What I can tell you is that I've had the experience of AMD processors being faster than an intel chip of the same processing speed. Of course now, we're counting processing power in number of cores now instead of just speed, but MOST of the time you can't go wrong with AMD. I'll have to read up on that article about the defective core.

Fair enough, I lean towards Intel cause the newer technology is good, but I lean towards them for good reasons. Go back a couple of years and AMD had the better technology without a doubt, but I think that has changed recently. I was just interested in what others had to say. Thanks for the feedback.

I have a question, If I were to completely erase my hard drive, with a de-magatizer, and put that same hard drive back in to my tower would I totaly loose my operating system? So, basicly, is my operating system on my hard drive or on my mother board?

I have a question, If I were to completely erase my hard drive, with a de-magatizer, and put that same hard drive back in to my tower would I totaly loose my operating system? So, basicly, is my operating system on my hard drive or on my mother board?

Hard Drive.

Bios is on the motherboard.

Hard Drive.

Bios is on the motherboard.

So than if I erased my hard drive and re-installed it into my tower my PC would not be able to start?

The physical computer would start just fine, but it wouldn't boot into an operating system.

So than if I erased my hard drive and re-installed it into my tower my PC would not be able to start?

It would boot to the screen where it finds your keyboard (the black DOS screen) and then would say something like this "Operating System missing." Why would you erase your hard drive with a demagnetizer? Just blow away the partition and reinstall your OS. Unless you're going to have government officials analyzing your computer's hard drive, the chances of someone else retrieving your old files would be slim to none.

For what it's worth, I called AMD and they didn't even question me. They just said "send it to us." So I did... Supposedly they are still trying to determine whether it is a problem with the processor or simply an incompatibility with Vista 64 bit OS, but everyone that has RMA'd theirs and replaced it has not seen the problem... We shall see.