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Okay here we go again with both top dog CPU companies, AMD and Intel, laying their latest silicon on the table for comparison. We have seen this battle take many forms over the years, and have watched AMD and Intel go back and forth as the speed leader. One thing to take into account is that the platform as well as the CPU itself helps establishes the overall performance of your system. Taking that in mind I evaluated over ten different motherboards on the latest platforms available for them. I have to give AMD a little credit here though as their 2000+ XP processor actually runs at 1666MHz and is not even a true 2.0GHz CPU but it still competes neck and neck with Intel's true 2.0GHz solution. There have been a lot of questions floating around about which one of these chips is actually the faster chip not to mention the question, of which one is better overall. A loaded question at best. Intel has long been known as the stability/compatibility king hands down. AMD has come a long way in the past few years and stability is not an issue that continues to plague them. Compatibility issues still surface much more often than they do with the Intel line of products. This may be happening repeatedly due to the fact that Intel has its corporate hand in almost everything while AMD although strong cannot compete at the same level as them. What this means is Intel always is a part of newly released products and makes sure that the product being released works with their chipset. AMD still does not have the market power to force companies to make sure they are AMD compatible before being released, and this sometimes results in products being put out on the shelf before being fully tested with the AMD platform. This is not the fault of AMD but the companies who are putting out a product that is not fully tested and certified to work on the AMD platform and who's only interest is in getting the cash as fast as possible and then worry about fixing the problems later. 
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