I benched my mates AMD 64bit 3400 + against my P4EE (3.2ghz) and i kaned him on games and we both have fx 5900 and 1024mb ram. But when it came to muiltitasking he beat me . I am going by loading times and the diffrence in the game. My opinton is that if you play games the intels winds but when it comes to other stuff the AMD win so i recon it depends on what you do.