Nonsense. I just built a new rig with Inte’s i7 940 chip on an Asus Rampage MOBO. It’s running Windows 7, which is surprisingly stable and very elegant. It is sick, sick fast. Not even OC’d and it encodes DVD’s twice, almost three times as quickly as by Intel Dual-Core 2.5. One word - Hyperthreading. Of course, it is a power hog. When I turn it on, several neighbors experience a temporary brown out.