I agree,

I am a Senior Support Analyst by day and AMD make poor quality processors. There biggest calling is their price. Its Intel all the way for me.

Xeon or the new Dual Cores are the best for workstations. Intel processors will stand up to a good old beating and last, they also have an internal thermal controller that stops the chip form overheating.

The AMD v Intel Video that floats about the web shows it (the one where they remove the heat sink from the processors), Toms Hardware did it as far as I could recall. The AMD popped its core with milliseconds, but the Intel lasted a good 15 - 20 seconds longer.

Says it all for me. My tip avoid AMD and pay the extra for an Intel, you won't regret it.