Thanks everyone for your response. Looks like I am going to try the AMD.

>I've been using AMD CPUs for a long time now with not a single problem attributable to it.
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>2 weeks ago I upgraded to a AMD X2 4400 because it went down in price by half (socket 939).
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>Now mine is not a "business environment" in the true sense of the words, but I do run all the standard business type applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, SQl Server sometimes as well as the VFP app. the company makes and VFP itself. I have a local network and DSL for internet and use USB a lot.
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>Very infrequently Windows Explorer will be shutdown on startup because of an access violation detected by the AMD's extra protection for addressing, but my thought is that's a bug in Explorer. It re-starts and runs fine afterwards, and I do send the failure reports for it to MS.
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>cheers
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>>I am looking to replace my desktop computer and was thinking about an AMD duel core. My computer salesman said that he has seen some compatibility problems in a business environment. Anyone had problems with the AMD?
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>>Thanks.