I'm not going to bring into question your superior expertise on building computers. I did own an AMD and as a gamer it was junk. The only thing it had going for it was that you could overclock it much more that you could an intel but it was very unstable. I now have a P4 and would never buy anything else. Of course that may only be the case until I purchase a 64 bit rig in the next year or two and it's anyones guess as to who will be on top then. BTW, there is no major performance differences if comparing apples to apples (which you can never do).
Both platforms are structured differently and as such perform differently give certain apps. AMD will always have performance gains over Intel and vice versa. It is an eternal power struggle that will never go away and is extremely similar to the benchmark testing we see between ATI and Nvidia.
I've owned both and for my money, Intel is the winner.
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