we've seen pictures of your humidor, of you smoking.....lets see your pc/desk

[Silencei2]

Silencei2 that is one hell of a nice set up

I'm thinking of building one of the AMD 6 core systems on the cheap due to the cost of the Intel Core i7's but do you think the i7's are that much better for gameing?
Im kind of at a stand still till i decide on a CPU.
All i do is game and surf the net.

As far as gaming goes, you really don't need to go with more cores. A good quad or dual core will do fine as most games don't utilize all those cores very well.

As far as AMD and Intel goes, if you're looking for a great budget gaming rig AMD takes the cake. I've been using Intel for the past 3 iterations of my computer. The last AMD processor I used was a x2 4400. Since then I have managed to get great deals on the processors from Intel which perpetuates my loyalty for them. I know plenty of gamers who have gone the AMD route and haven't been dissapointed.

[Mangyrat]

I'm still running a 4 year old Q6600 @ 3.2 ghz 8 Gig ram and a ATI 5850 in my game system and have not found a game i cant run decently even in surround gaming.

But I'm getting that itch to build again.
I haven't updated my CPU's in a while so i was wondering how AMD was working out for gaming.

Back when i went with the Q6600 every one was saying you don't need a quad core for gaming but it worked out great in the long run.