I've been an AMD advocate since the K6. AMD has gotten much better over the years and the Athlon64 and Opteron chips pack much more performance for the price as compared to their Intel counter-parts. AMD also has some really good stuff brewing for 4th quarter this year.
So, the moral of the story: I would recommend AMD as well, simply because I don't like Intel's desktop chips (or their server chips for that matter).
Quote: Originally Posted by intuitionsys
I don't have any direct experience with the Intel Duos but just from technical research I've been doing for a replacement computer for my studio, the dual core AMD processors appear to have a price/performance edge and much higher FSB speeds, which is probably what is more important for what you're doing. Even the Sempron CPUs are $$$ though
