Ok I see the post you are referring to in that thread, but that does not change what you said first. I thought Mik3y kept a pretty good demeanor in the thread about your new 3.4EE, he was trying to congratulate you, even if he pointed out the price thing it was not in an inflammatory way. I tried to do the same thing as I am not an "AMD user" as you state. I happen to run AMD processors but that is because they fit my budget and provide a priceerformance ratio that I find suitable. I don't really care either way and do own several Intel CPUs. These were gifts mind you but like I said if Intel came out with a CPU that fits my priceerformance ratio then I would certainly purchase it as I hardly have any brand loyalty whatsoever. I am out to try to get bang for the buck. I am glad that you like Intel because I like them too, they make some really good CPUs. The problem I have is that you seem to have a narrow mind about CPUs, including the reference you made to AMDs being less reliable because you had dealt with two of them that had failed. This is not even a remotely close accurate representation of the total amount of AMD CPUs that are currently being used. Like some had pointed out in your flamebait, why does anyone go AMD thread, CPU failures are usually caused by user error. I am not trying to say you don't know how to handle/install CPUs as I'm sure you do if you do as many trades, testing for dead CPUs as you pointed out in the same thread. However to put things in perspective I have dealt with at least 20-30 AMD CPUs and I have NEVER seen one fail except by user error. I could go into detail about each processor if you would like, but I would like to point out I am still using an original slot Athlon (550 MHz) in one of my backup computers that runs 24/7 and has not had any trouble what-so-ever. Anyways this isn't the forum to get into these kinds of discussions but just thought I should clear that up. Again congrats on your EE I hope you enjoy it.