The latest Core 2 Duo Processors are the first Intel processors which would convince me in not buying an AMD for a long time. Before Intel came out with the Core 2 Duo I bought an AMD X2 and now I am quite jealous that Intel's processores are much faster for equal or less money. Anybody has the feeling no matter what computer you buy a month later you regret it?

All I guess I can say is that it takes a Dual-Core processor from Intel to finally beat AMD? lol

Intel is the best you can use conroe CPU s and feeling the power.

AMD's been way ahead for anyone into gaming, and most people overall, until recently. As far as price to performance goes, you're best off with a Core 2 Duo. I've got a Core 2 Duo E6300, which, at the time I bought, was around the same price as the Athlon X2 3800+. I was gonna go for that, but I'm glad I didn't. As far as a raw comparison between those two goes, the Core 2 Duo wins out in most cases.

The cheaper Core 2 Duos have overclocking ability on their side. With good cooling, you can get a normally 1.86GHz E6300 to the mid 3 GHz area. On stock cooling, they can usually go up to 2.5GHz or so. If you're into overclocking, Core 2 Duo is for you.

Of course, by the time you buy something new, AMD may have something new out. It's bound to happen before too long. Currently, I've gotta say Core 2 Duo is your best value overall.

Hmm, I am a fan of intel, but as long as you use your PC for games, or some multimedia delelopment I'll say stick with AMD, if it's a 64bit AMD even better, but still I've got a Core Duo processor, and it's doing a great job so far, my other PC has P4 HT processor, and I use it for both Game development and movie making, and a lot of stuff that require powerfull computing. They both handle tempreture and data overloading pretty well, In my experience Intel processors are what I prefer, but AMD chips are not to be underestimated....they are cheaper and hotter, but they are made for working that way....if you need speed than intel is what you need, if you need performance, a 64 bit AMD will do just fine for you.

Well, look at it this way. AMD has been using the 64 architechture now for quite some time, and up until the Conroe showed up to give it serious competition and to finally beat it, Intel had no answer for AMD with their P4's. When it's AMD's turn to launch their new line of proccessors, then they will be the new king in performance.

In my experience, the difference between a core 2 duo and an athlon 64 x2 isn't as huge as benchmarks tend to say, its more of the amd being an avg. 5-10 fps behind. Boo hoo, not enough of a reason for me to buy a whole new system just because of that. AMD dual core procs run very cool and use little voltage, which makes them great at overclocking. A Zalman fan and some tweaking will do me good .

Also, in respone to the new conroes, amd lowered its prices considerably, so you can get a very good cpu for a fraction of the price of what it used to cost before the added competition. Competition= better procs at lower prices.

I also prefer the AMD it is a lot better processor and the company itself produces many better solutions then Intel. Eventhough they are regulary late with new processor types and behind the Intel when their new processor is on th emarket it is sold at higher rates ebcause of price range then because of the stability and overheating problems and so on.

I would like to point out biggest advantage of AMD processors over the intel processors and that is operations per second it is just that you would compare Olympic weight lifter with Body Builder. One uses shear power and doesn't look to have muscles at all while other uses stereoids and other medicins to grow his muscles and show them around. Its the same thing here. AMD doesn't show his muscle by his speeds like intel does but instead it is able to do a lot more oprations then intel processors on the same clock speed.

AMD processors are definitely reliable more than Intel ones upto the pentium processors. About Core 2 Duo I have not used it and i dont know how good it is. But nearly everyone seems to agree that they are better than AMD processors of the same kind. But AMD hopes to reverse it with the launch of Barcelona chip. But Intel has huge resources and money and have promised several multicore processors and more usage of 45nm technology. So only time will tell how this plays out.
Another news today is that AMD plans to use on chip DRM. Man that is bad.

The best processor company I would say is AMD. AMD processors are made for performance where as Intel processors are made for everyday use. The best processor to get today would probalbly be one of AMD's Dual Core processors.