Building a PC

[GeorgeTH]

Originally Posted by biftek

AMD are not more prone to Thermal malfunction. [...] I have never had an AMD CPU malfunction because of heat.

My AMD 3200 had a few heat issues last summer. On a couple of days with 36-39 degrees CELSIUS (and no airconditioning) it simply re-booted in the middle of a process. But an extra fan and better ventilated place for the box solved the problem quickly...

I would always stick with AMD in a desktop - mostly because I hate to strengthen a monopoly with my purchase. My first AMD was a 50 Mhz notebook in 1993, then a K5/266 PC in 1995, and ever since I've only bought AMD desktops, and have been happy with all of them. And you can't go wrong with a decent ASUS motherboard!
Notebooks are different story, because I believe Intel has the cooling/power saving/WiFi issues better under control.