[Echo Talon]

Right now Intel, hands down. Core2Duo or Core2Quad(QX6700)

[Obadiah]

Exactly right. It's a no-brainer.

[DesScorp]

"Right now Intel, hands down. Core2Duo or Core2Quad(QX6700)"

Not the desktop. All these people running out buying the Core Duo line for the desktop thinking they're getting top performance are misinformed...the Core series was designed mainly for laptops, and are designed to get the maximum performance per watt. AMD's Athlon X2 dual core CPU's are better for desktop performance by far. Intel has hitched it's future to mobile computing. While clock speed isn't the pure indicator of performance it once was for Intel CPUs, it still matters in X86, and your Core CPU's are between 1.6 and 2.1 ghz. They're not meant for all out processing muscle, they're all about efficiency.

[BonnieJ]

I agree...Intel all the way.