11-15-2005, 03:23 PM
amd's do run hotter then intel but as long as you have a recommended heat sink on you will be fine. Right now with stock fan and chip mine is temping at 112. You can get these chips to the upper 180's before it will start to slow your computer. During gaming it normally runs about 130 max for a temp. I will forever be an AMD fan for life. Nothing but raw power and just incredible performance. Intel is fast but there just way over priced by almost double if you ask me. And from experience i have found my system to be more stable with an AMD processor as well. Seems to handle a load like internet surfing, downloading, music players, instant messengers all at once a lot better then intel's.