Before you dwell on the title, let me fling a backdrop of my personal computing experience. My teenage-hood was bombarded with an “Unknown PC” from an Alien Planet which was inferior than our Planet Earth. Hence i asked DAD for a real pc and my uncompromising argument yielded me my first PC with an Intel Pentium 4 chip clocked @1.7GHz on an Intel 850MV motherboard with 2*128MB RD Ram and nVidia Geforce MX2 video card. Yes i was more than happy with the configuration as it was way better than what my friends had back then. Honestly speaking i had no clue about AMD processors and how they fared against Intel chips until i was enlightened about the AMD Athlon 64 processors in early 2004. As it was high time i needed an upgrade i went for AMD Athlon-X2 4200+ on ASUS M2N VM-DH, previously i had seen the advantage of going for AMD processors (socket 939) as Athlon X2 was totally compatible with older motherboards that came with Athlon64 cpu’s and i was impressed with that unlike the Blue team forcing you to upgrade the motherboard if you wanted a new CPU from their turf. So it was sealed and my first AMD A$$ kicking Athlon X2 was chosen for my next PC.