I also find it interesting when people are eager to dismiss past incompatibility problems with major hardware vendors by calling them crap components.
I was speaking in general and also from my own personal experience going from Intel to two AMD systems that I`m using at the moment(both rock stable).
If you want to talk about incompatibility,well I`ve never had any compatibility problems,infact only problem I ever had was WinXP OS not working with some of my older games(X-COM games) which is a WinXP problem not hardware(since the games work fine in Win98).
My ex-Intel PCs were used as heavy gaming and general use, just like my current AMD systems.
I would rate them equal for compatibility.
In the end it comes down to money between the two for me, not compatibilty

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