The last two systems I built were AMD based... and they were a nightmare. I built them right when the AMD MP 1900+'s hit the market... don't remember the brand of mobo that I used. Everything was top notch but it worked for shit. I'm not sure I would go with AMD again. My lappy that I just sold was also AMD... not sure if the stability issues I had with it were related to the cpu.

I'm using a compy with a Pentium D processor now. So far it's worked pretty good. Much faster than what I was used to which is nice... and I have more memory... still not fast enough though. Maybe in 3 to 5 years computers will finally be "fast enough" for my needs. Really the only time this computer has seemed slow is when I'm editing video... and even then it's faster than Photoshop was on my old machine.