Matador - Yep I was a rabid AMD fan back in the day....they had the better chips...but ones the dual cores came and beyond (granted Intel also really did some illegal stuff to keep them out of the market), Intel's chips just outpaced them by leaps an bounds. I currently run an i7-3770K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.5GHz w/ 8mb cache....not a bad chip since I custom built my machine (has really some KILLER hardware in it).



Yeah I actually have been seeing both versions, but the pinned ones are a PITA...cone you bend a pin, no guarantee it will test...and I tend to pull them quickly...but might start pulling a bit more carefully....depends on what my research shows. You just have to be so careful with pinned chips unless you have the plastic chip holders....and I am getting xeon's in my servers at least...but those are from a hospital and some other businesses. Consumer machines definitely are still XP/vista mainly (the scrap ones)...but I am betting we will see the 1ast set of win7 machines pretty soon.