PumpKan: AMD's Speeds may be slower then intel but they out preform them in certain instances for example, a AMD 3200 beats an Intel P4 at 3.2 Ghz. Why because AMD's have shorter piplines and Intels have loner piplines. Thats about all I know, really the only place that Intel beats AMD in preformance is in encoding. AMD Preform worse at Encoding for the same reason, shorter pipelines, far As I know the shorter the pipelines are, gaming is enhanced, the longer the piplines Encoding is enhanced.