Quote Originally Posted by duc
Is there really a better? Truthfully I think Intel last longer, but AMD seems to work better. I watched this one video from tomshardware.com where they showed what happens when you take the cooler/fan (something) off the chip, and on the intel's it just froze the game they were playing. Once they put it back on it worked fine. When they took it off the AMD's it actually started smoking and destroyed itself. I already have an AMD so I'm looking for advice on my next buy.

-duc

That's definitely a factor to consider if you happen to be one of the millions of people out there who takes the fan off the processor while playing games.