have to support the underdog. i converted over from intel chips back when i moved from a pentium II 350 MHZ to a 700 thunderbird athlon, that was a long time ago. i havent owned anything intel since that PII, i have since had a 700 MHZ tbird, a 1500+ athlon XP, a sempron 2800+, an athlon 64 3000+ socket 754 (still my wifes machine), and currently athlon 64 X2 4200+. i cant complain about any of them. they are stable, fast, and a good value. AMD all of the way, and cant wait until the new AMD chips come out, they will put intel back in its place again.