I'm an all-intel guy. I've considered an AMD 64 Processor, but the chipset offerings shyed me away as there only seems to be VIA (oh no!) and nForce. I've found intel chipsets to be very solid, as stability is what I look for the most. The new Intel Prescotts run a bit hotter, but have read that its able to cope at the high temperatures. Although I wish I got a Northwood at the time since the Prescotts are slower (even with its 1MB cache). But the good thing is that Prescotts start to shine when its over 3.6GHz, which is why Intel are trying to phase out the Northwoods as the speed can't be squeezed out any further. I'm selling my AMD 1.3GHz with its VIA chipset mobo. I had the most problems with this out of all my 4 Intel (and intel chipset mobo) PCs.