You people seem to have completely forgot the fact that Intel has whooped AMD for quite sometime now in sales. AMD semiconductors are strong, for gaming, but they aren't nearly as long-lasting or reliable as Intel processors. Also, I have bought many AMD products and have noticed that they tend to be slower when running apps and I had a couple break within three weeks of eachother. I don't see why everyone is still using this old architecture when they can be using two or three cell semiconductors. Also 64-bit is not faster than 32-bit it's just a scam to get people to upgrade just like PCI-E X16 (oooh higher bandwith, it doesn't matter when not even a quad-core processor can kick out enoough to bottle neck AGP)