Thanks for the info guys. I am probably going to go with a Intel now. You reccommend going with a lower speed though? How low would you reccomend going? I will be runngin games like HL 2, Far Cry and Doom 3. The thing is I'm already purchasing a gig of ram and a good mobo, so I could afford the 3.4. Also any extra money wouldn't be spent on overlocking accessories, like water cooling for example, because I still need speakers and a monitor which is gonna cost me about 750$.