indeed, frequent visits to these boards might make one forget that most ppl use their pc as a tool, instead of being bent over your case half the time using tools on the pc.
not saying that we are only soldering away on our pc's without doing anything else. but for a really serious user, any time lost maintaining their pc is a reason to search for a maintenance free solution.
to be honest, i wouldn't even bother with amd and aircooling, been there done that, experienced the headaches. and i can imagine a serious CAD designer not wanting to put up with a 6-7k rpm monstercooler to cool down their top of the line xp 2200+.
what would make em turn the tides?
-a foolproof shut down system in case of overtemp
-throttling for if temps get up too high
-a heatspreader maybe for evading the chipped cores frustration
-performance
of which i think performance is not even the most important one.
imagine this. u r selling 15k prebuilt pc, they have to be shipped from the manufacturing place about 400km away by roadtransport. a certain % can and will have fan failures, from the start, detached heatsinks and the likes. so u can understand why most of the ppl in similar situation are choosing intel over and over again.
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