dont get me wrong i LOVE amd but i would buy a P4 before i would buy a athlon XP but if i ahd the money i would get a 64 bit over ANYTHING and here is a pretty good link it shows the perofrmance of all kinds of chips using UNREAL TOURNEMNT 2004CLICK HEREas you can see pentium 4 CRUSH athlon xp's but dont get me wrong i LOVE AMD but i would rather get a P4 than an athlon XP.. now if i had the money to buy a top of the line gaming processor like a fx-53 or a 3800 64bit or a 3.4 extreme edition.... there is no way i would buy INTEL.