I remember back in the day (circa 2000) I was all about AMD and all my custom-built machines had this emphasis on AMD chips due to the floating-point calculatio

I remember back in the day (circa 2000) I was all about AMD and all my custom-built machines had this emphasis on AMD chips due to the floating-point calculations be that much faster than Intel's at the time. Intel really wiped the floor with them over the next bunch of years... It will be interesting should AMD have their comeback now :) Oh how the tables turn!