[andrewas]

The K6-3 was the chip before AMD got good. Its not the worst chip of that generation(That would be from Cyrix), but the FPU and the cache just werent up to gaming. And the AMD compatable chipsets of the time were pretty poor as well, especialy the VIA ones.

From the AMD K7 (athlon) onwards, its been consistently beating the equivalent pentium at the same clock-rate, and the stability of the newer Nvidia chipsets equals anything Intel has.

These days, I wouldn't build an Intel machine unless I had a specific reason to need the absolute most powerful machine money can buy.