In my experience with AMD I've never had incompatibility problems like that. With video cards, yes, but those problems had nothing to do with the fact that I was running an AMD chip. To each his own though. Nobody can win the "AMD Vs. Intel" argument, because there are a lot of people that still base their opinions purely on the theory or comments of another person, and therefore have a uninformed bias towards one or the other. Just has to be seen first hand by each person that is up to making the descision, of course, only if they're willing to not be so closed minded. Don't get me wrong, I have both AMD and Intel based machines, but for gaming and a majority of the other things I do, I use AMD.