Bah!!! AMD is garbage. I was taken for the worse ride of my life when I bought my first computer. It had an AMD K6 processor with onboard sound and video. And let me tell you that it was total trash. I spent 2K on that dumb computer (5 years ago) and all it had was an 8 gig hard drive. I had nothing but blue fatal exception screens. My computer crashed and froze up dozens of times a day, sometimes dozens of times a MINUTE (no joke). The company I bought it from is local and 3 weeks after I had the dumb thing home it starts crashing and losing registry settings and drivers and giving blue screens. They claim it was software related and charged me $300 to reformat it. I had been told it was a superior machine and wouldn't ever need to be upgraded. What a bunch of lies. The sales guy saw me coming a mile away. Give me the cheapest and junkiest components and charge me the maximum amount for them. Afer 6 months I took it back and told them to fix it or I was going to sue them. They replaced the crappy components with the SAME type of components and the problems continued. My computer was reformatted on average of every 3 weeks due to problems. Finally after 6 months more of that I couldn't take it any longer. I took it elsewhere and paid them $1,700 to gut it and give me a Pentium III, 1 gig process with seprate sound and video. That computer has never had a blue fatal exception screen since, not even one. I should have sued the first company, but I was so fed up that I just couldn't stomach fighting about it anymore. I was just happy to have a working computer, even if it did cost me $3,700 before it finally worked. I'll never ever ever get another computer with AMD in it again. Pentium all the way for me.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi