it's kinda neat to see intel come out with such a promising cpu, it's just kinda cool to mix it up every once in a while. two of my friends got pentium Ds and both had issues with overheating, and continually got angry with me because my processor always outran theres in basicaly everything, which they couldn't understand because of how "fast" their procs were. the A64 was and still is an awesome proc, and now here comes intel with the conroe and makes a lot of the amd fanboys rethink their bias.