Yes, the AMD and Intel war rages on. I do know that you do not want to deal with a company in Baton Rouge, LA called Computer Heaven. They are completely anti AMD and pro Intel. They claim that they used to build AMD systems and had nothing but problems. The owner supposedly had to eat some cash by switching users from AMD to Intel to make up for the problems. Their techs could not figure out what was wrong. I have personally ran AMD's all my life except for one Intel and that was a Pentium 2 266 Slot 1 processor. Even the AMD K62 processors out performed the Intel Pentium 2 and 3 Slot 1. I then jumped to a Slot A Athlon 900mhz. Very good processor. I recently switched over to a 2600+ Athlon XP a little over a year ago. I do admit they run a little hot, but just use a Thermaltake or beefed up fan and heatsink and use some silver thermal grease. You will get the performance and the cooling you need. DO NOT use the stock fan that comes with the processor. Right now I am headed to year number 2 on my warranty with AMD. I might switch before my 3 year manufacturers warranty is up and go with an AMD Athlon 64. They run alot cooler and they perform everythign out there right now.