I have the AMD 64 X2 4600+. I wanted the best but still had to consider price, basically I weighed out the differences and found a middle ground. Quite frankly I am appauled at Intel, I can not understand where they get the nerve producing an inferior product and charging so much more for it. I can understand some people want to stick with Intel, it's a big, conforming name. They advertise heavily and some people are so suseptable to such advertising ploys. I always like to use this example as a reference; look at diet pepsi, pepsi free, and pepsi one, they are all diet pepsi, the same exact recepie, same exact ingredients ( with the new exception of adding splenda to one of their products ) and yet they are able to capitalize on it due to different adds. I can not believe that there are people out there who believe they are drinking a different product. But any way back to the topic at hand, it is kind of scarey to me that no matter how much research is offered and how much test data is available, there are still people who believe that Intel is the better product. Go ahead and spend $1100 on a chip that is inferior to a $600 chip, it's your perogative and your money. At least you have the Intel name on your product. Performance, price, servcice, AMD all the way.