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mmoy - You'd be surprised at the sophistication of many of those young teenagers. They may not know all the details of why, but they're very aware via word of mouth(word of forum, really) what the "hardware to have" is, and for gaming, it ain't Intel right now. In many, if not most, cases AMD's lower end Athlon64 chips equal or outdo Intel's best.

Tom's has been no great friend to AMD, so these
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20051121/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts-23.html are interesting in light of that.

Notice that the only thing Intel dominates is 3DMark05 Graphic. Considering it's supposed to be a gamer's graphics benchmark, tells you something about its validity in light of all the real-world game results that tell the opposite story.

There's really no comparison right now.

As Anandtech put it(emphasis mine) -
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2535&p=2
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Gaming CPU and Motherboard Recommendations

While we are providing two Gaming system recommendations here, let's make this perfectly clear: the AMD setup will beat the pants off of the Intel setup in gaming. It's not even close, and what's more, the Intel system will cost a bit more. The future Intel processors (there's additional information here) have a lot to offer and should provide substantially improved gaming performance relative to today's Prescott parts, but the "future" is almost a year away. Some will argue that Intel is "more reliable", but that simply isn't our experience. Reliability seldom has much to do with the processor these days; the choice of RAM and motherboard is of far more consequence. There may be some specific applications that would have problems on one type of processor, but if there are, we have to admit that we haven't encountered them."

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2426&p=3
"Intel Recommendations
Intel Processors
There are always people who continue to prefer Intel processors for whatever reason. We feel that AMD has the upper hand right now - both in price as well as performance - but there are merits to the Intel platform. We've said it many times before, but let us reiterate that anyone interested in serious 3D gaming should just forget the Intel chips for now. It's really that cut and dry, unfortunately."