I'm not a fanboy either way but for every build I've done (4 or so now) I've always seemed to end up with my price performance ratio mixing an Intel CPU with an ATI GPU...it has just ALWAYS worked out that way..never on purpose or for "fanboy" reasons, it just has always turned out like that lol....
Not to insult or anything, but aren't the phenoms really not what they are cracked up to be for $215+?...I thought I read a few reviews on them saying they really weren't "all that"...but what do I know...like ATF, I've never owned an AMD so I'm not current on their technology...