http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores/page45.html - for the poor folks who like to tinker.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=2&amp;id=1896&amp;pg=10 - for those with more money to burn.

Been lookin at this crap too much lately without coming to a solid conclusion... no clear &quot;all-around&quot; winner IMO but I'm leaning towards Intel for my next build just because the pricing seems better that way now.  A new PC every 3 to 5 years (as tech improves) doesn't sound too bad to me but I still keep putting it off... being kinda poor and all.  $300 roughly for mobo+processor is kinda my top end $$ goal.

It's late, can't sleep and nobody's on TS.

Current, aging system:
Asus A7V333 +RAID
Athlon XP 1800+
1GB PC2700 + 512 PC2100 (would be 2gb PC2700 or more if I hadn't broken that damned 3rd dimm slot...)
ATI AIW 8500DV (64MB)
SB Audigy
Just about a terrabyte of IDE/ATA HDD space altogether, 250GBx2 RAID 0 striped for video capture or whatever.  Mostly WD drives.  Maxtor sucks.  Samsung's good.

Video processing/rendering and Photoshop crap are my main uses - not gaming really.
I have 3 tuner cards (2 HDTV Wonders and one dual analog standard tuner from Hauppage) waiting for a home theater PC build using BeyondTV.  I'll probably relegate the above mobo/proc/RAM and the 2x250 RAID 0 for this purpose but would need a newer vid card for HDTV watching and shifting.

blah.