i got i7 985 extreme at 3.32ghz (fastest on the market) for the price of 1108$ and my other amd athlon x2 at 2.0 ghz (laptop) and combat arms run as sweet (or almost) then on my intel, but im still for intel, because it can beat almost all amd processors, but this is my first intel, i never got any problem before with AMD and my i7 is quite hot and im worried about that... i got a water cooling system and its still hot, cmon, i never get that problem with AMD!