Well i took a change last summer and brought my first AMD. it was my mightly K6-3/450 that I am always talking about. You must think that I believe it can walk on water the way I talk about it.
Anyway, back to my point...My have that processor on my DFI MB with a VIA chipset. 100 mhz bus, with the processor overclocked to 475 mhz...Can't get stable at 500...Maybe with better cooling I could...Anyway, it has servered me well for over a year, with the last 6 months overclocked...I never have window bluc screens or random lockup....I have been truly happy with thim machine...I don't leave my machine on all the time, but when it is idle I run seti..In fact I have it set to run all the time in the back ground when my pc is on..
Once I ran my system for 2 weeks without a reboot. I had seti running, I would surf the net...Play my games, run microsoft office 2000, and I never had a problem during that time...I was stress testing the processor, and it was overclocked at that time...
I know it is not the best on the market now, but It has been reliable as Hell for over a year, i never even thing about it freezing up or crashing...
Yes, I have had a few crashing, but I was the main reason, me and beta software.
Plus everyone know how the Game star trek armada had some problems...I beat the game with out a patch with out a crash...However I did have the same lock up in the end video that was a known problem and the patch did fix that....
SO in short I really feel that I got my money's worth with this processor and I am using it right now...
In my book the following are my favorite processors every..
486 Intell DX 66
586 Intell P 166 no mmx on a MB with 512 k cache
AMD K6-2/300-500 except for the k62/350
K6-3/450 yes I made this stand out...
Intell P2/450
Intell Xeon processors like the 550
I have not really used the P3's enought to judge since most of our customers are on a tight budget.
I don't like Celerons because of the Low cache. Sorry everyone...
Since my first computer I learn about want cache is and what is does...And the most cache the better I believe...