Two years ago I made a choice. I decided to buy an AMD chip over an Intel chip. At the time the AMD chips were lean, quick, cool, quiet. Comparatively Intel seemed like the fat, complacent middle-aged man to AMDs youthful sporty student who was done with the learning and was taking on the world. The AMD was everything I wanted and a little more. It seems times change. While AMD was resting on its laurels it seems, Intel was having its midlife crisis. It emerged with that same vigour to take on the world it once had. As I browse the statistics on the current offerings it seems all that blood sweat and thermal grease paid off, Intel has once again stormed the charts, not by a little but by a lot. I think it’s safe to say my love affair with the n00b has ended and I’m back on the straight and narrow. And at these prices I’m willing to dip more than just a toe in Intel.

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