As usual ,The reviews without much technical info or pictures of solder irons in it , are a little bullcrap on Tom’s HardwarePage.
I did buy an Amd Athlon Thunderbird B 900 MHz (9 x 100) about 2 years ago. Why ? Because it was CHEAP.
Yes… cheap … I am truly sorry Intel , but AMD was just then cheaper.
Now all my other systems are Intel based Pentium 1 systems (and one Celeron 500 system). Why ? Because they were CHEAP. Amazingly cheap and amazingly funny what you can still do with them on Linux or just Windows 98 SE. One’s an FTP server , another one is a firewall and another one is the pc with the 2 burners in it. Sorry AMD , but Intel P1’s make perfect bargain systems. Hell , even Celeron systems are much cheaper than Durons.
It’s not about being fan of Amd or Intel , or Liteon or whatever brand. Its about functionality , performance and price. And price comes first for me.
So , shoot me for not having super duper CAS2 memory in my systems , burn me for not using 80 Gb harddisk everywhere and loathe me for using Windows XP and/or Linux on all systems.
They all have their particular purpose.