[skinsguy]

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.