When you're looking for a new PC, deciding between Intel and AMD is only the beginning. Here's how to master the spec sheets and choose a genuinely speedy machine. Almost daily, Intel and AMD intensify their pitched battle for CPU supremacy. New chip companies enter the fray. Processor performance shoots up.
Buyers get more computer for less money.
But competition can also be confusing. What's more, the CPU wars are only the beginning. Chip sets galore. Just four years ago, Intel's Pentiums first iinched past the 200-MHz mark. But the days when megahertz was all that mattered are long gone.