AMD is neither a word nor is it a misspelled word for and. AMD is the acronym and colloquial title for a technology company called Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated.
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Intel is a good processor, usually quite fast and powerful. AMD also a good processor, difference between them is that an AMD is easier to overclock (make it run faster than it should) AMD's are made to be overclocked. No real advantage or disadvantage just matter of opinion, and what you want to do with it.
The main two manufacturers are INTEL and AMD. The 4th quoter results of 2008: INTEL - 80.96% AMD - 10.6%
AMD is the ONLY compeditor of Intel AMD
Altimeter is one word that starts with alti.
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I always used to swear by AMD processors. They are good. However they have one major disadvantage over Intel processors - the Front Side Bus (FSB) speeds are considerably slower and can effectively halve the performance of your machine. AMD are still cheaper and up to the X2 / Duo's they appeared to be similar in performance for real applications.
You can use an amd sempron or an amd athlon II with an am3 socket, but when am3 was released it was meant to be used with the amd phenom line of CPUs. You can use all three: amd sempron, amd athlon II & amd phenom.
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