the ee is way overpriced and dosent even beat the fx51,, though it is close and have seen benchmarks from different sources that say one wins and ones that say the other ,,even so,,,, even if we dont need 64 bit the fact remains that it is sill a faster chip and it is a good price when compaired to anything that can compete with it. take a look at the february pc world they are reliable benchmarks that show the advantages of the 64 bit chips and being able to have windos 64 in a coupple of months and the beta is allready showing about a 33% increase in performance over xp pro.