Cool . born and raised myself . Here ' s a little rhyme about my location now . From South Milwaukee to Whitefish Bay nothing stinks like Cudahy . <| sep |> I know this book was popular , but no one I know read it . Personally I thought it ok , but not amazing . I ' m really curious as to how our experiences reading this book are different . Care to share what was so engrossing about it ? <| sep |> The Athalon X 2 was the last time AMD held their lead on Intel in performance . They were also better performing at equal or lower pricing and overclocked well without as much waste heat as Intel . The FX line was crazy , but with the last single core FX processors , I bought an Opteron with the same core , and overclocked that to match the FX overclocked performance , at like 14 or less the price . The FX and Operton chips were tested to above standard , one for MTB for servers and the other for high end gamers . Turns out their selection process was about the same . That was the last time I had a unicorn overclock , All of my Intel chips have under performed on average . My i 7920 wasn ' t a D 0 , even though I bought it 3 months after the D 0 stepping had come out , and my current i 53570 K has some weird voltage issue . I am getting more out of it than I should be at the voltage I am at , but my max voltage is WAY under what it should be capable of , by like . 3 V . I am hopeful that AMD does well on their pricing . I really wouldn ' t mind goign back to them for a change , My current CPU still isn ' t worth upgrading to anything newer . But if AMD has done what they say they have with TDP and performance , I would love to give them some market share so they can innovate some more . Intel has been pretty stagnant , they have gotten better at efficiency , but they still haven ' t done anything to really have competitive pricing on anything with more than 4 cores . I do more than just game and would like some more resources . Hopefully They give us something in the $ 3400 price range in video cards soon as well . That is where I usually like to put my money to make it last . Given what I have told you , I don ' t replace my PCs often , as I can still play with high to ultra settings on most games .