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alright well starting back in the day intel was the more well known manufacturer with their p3'S their flag ship amd was trying to stick with their performance.
amd had a small feature called 3dnow and other capabilities wich made it better for gaming.
the pentium 3 area was slowly coming to an end and amd's latest was the duron and athlon wich performed extremely well in games due to their features that intel didnt have.
the pentium 4 era came and amd released their athlon xp mode. lower clock speeds but better arcitecture allowed the athlon to slide into first place. also it was a very good over clocker aswell as the pentium 4 but the athlon was always favored by the hardcore gamers.
with the pentium 4 moving to new high speed frequencies amd released a newer model of their athlon called the athlon 64. this featured a 64bit complient architecture wich intel didnt have but they were close behind.
amd took the lead in the era of the athlon 64 from intel and was well ahead of its time soon releasing the x2 dual core and intel followed.
intel released the pentiums with up to around 4ghz while amd kept their cpus at a lower frequency not topping 3 ghz but as well with a better architecture.
intel released their 64bit pentiums wich were extremly hot as in running hot so you can make eggs on them and soon released their pentium D series. this was the dual core series from intel.
this year intel released the conroe archtitecture in july wich allowed them to gain a significant performance lead over amd beating any processor in gaming work performance thats out there. amd trying to keep up dropped their prices alot making their cpus attractive for a budget system builder or upgrader.
amd released their socket am2 model wich didnt change alot besides ddr2 ram support and their cpus have a lower cache. now amd is working on a new model called the 4x4 based on a socket f and also is released newer cpu's for the am2 socket like the x2 5200+. also in design are the new FX series and a new socket called am2+
that basically sums up the history of how it all went. basically right now amd is standing in the lower performance but awsome budget market while intel is the performance leader.
if you are upgrading now go with an intel as currently thers a better future and amd keeps hopping different sockets from am2 to socket f and now am2+.
i myself am a budget fan what ever gives me the most performance for the least money. so far ive stuck with buying new amd cpu's until 1 years ago the last amd cpu i bought was an amd sempron 64bit 2500+ for test purposes as my last one is an old athlon xp 3k+.
i got a ati x1600pro pcie for free and a pentium d 940 so i said why not upgrade. i personally dont upgrade unless i need to to get something done that i cant get done on the old technologie.
all my rigs are old technologie besides the current pentium d 940 one wich basically already also outdated.
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