Well Guru, MY viewpoint is, I don't personally like intel, I'd rather support AMD , by buying their products my fundage can show them that they still have customers. They can make siccckkkk chips and get people to by them. I also like installing there cpu better, The LGA 775 that I installed , I thought I was going to break the proc. in half and the mobo in half as well! Thats my opinion and viewpoint...