Originally Posted by Gareth

Unless you're doing things like video encoding and music production where you're working with very large files, I'd recommend AMD over Intel. The larger cache on the Intel chips make these slightly better for these kind of tasks, but for the remaining 99% of the time that your PC is working, I find AMD to be better. You definitely get more bang for your buck with AMD than with Intel.

It will be interesting to see how things progress with Intel's new Core Duo range of dual-core CPUs. Although AMD have been in this market for a while now, Intel seem to have a more aggressive plan to roll out dual core CPUs amongst the desktop market.