AMD or Intel?

[Archer]

(It was a 900-ish Mhz AMD Anthlon........seriously, why do they recycle processor names, whats the point?)

It's brand/name recognition. It's not like kept it the same the whole time. Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon 64 (FX and X2 lines as well), Athlon II. They're being replaced with the A-Series, though. It was once their top line, over the Duron and Sempron (Turion was mobile), but it's been superceded by the Phenom (soon to be FX-Series).

Intel did exactly the same thing. Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Pentium M and Pentium Dual-Core, where the newest incarnation is a budget line, replaced by Core 2 Duo/Quad and now i3/i5/i7.

 

[YuDaMan]

If you compare an Athlon 64 to an i5 OF COURSE THE i5 WILL FEEL FASTER. . . -.-

Honestly I owned an Athlon 64 3800+ and that thing felt great! Considering the year of that CPU? Plus the fact that it was a single core? Sweet Arceus that thing was sweeet. . .

I currently own a Phenom X3 720, honestly, I tried an Intel i7 2600k and I didn't feel a difference (Atleast not in normal usage, I couldn't test out the gaming part cuz' my graphic card, honestly sucks xP) I'm super happy with my 3 core and hell, it was only $80 with the mobo, who can argue with that logic?

Anyways, everything I've owned has been AMD, P4s sucked ass and that was the last Intel desktop I owned. . . I then had a core 2 duo lappy that didn't feel as good as I wanted it to, either way, it died. . .

I meant intel in general is better than AMD. Sorry if I made it sound like I was comparing my two comps, I was just trying to answer the OP's question.