Intel is back to there Pre Athlon Status of Empire, and its at the stage where it wants 100% control of the market and will do what ever it takes to rub everyone else out. Sadly AMD is loosing the battle and the disadvantage is, as long as Intel is on top everyone plays by Intel rules, remember Intel intends to kill off other chipset makers, other CPU makers, and other video card makers. But we all remember what happened last time intel was here right? They released the Pentium III on a 250nm process and it couldn't go over 600mhz stable, the 650 was quite unstable, it was diffrent than the Pentium 2 with the exception of SSE. They viewed themselves secure in there place, the K6 only brought compitition to the Celeron, but not good enough to sway the market. Intel is there again, Nehlam is Core2 with an IMC, which will produce heat, lower clock speeds, and limit overclocks. The overall design is still largly Pentium Pro based just like the Core2. Intel has added a small update, which didn't help AMD out much, the XP 3200 was still very competive with the single core A64 3000 and 3200 as it had the juice still to run games. Now Intels bus though isnt that constrained as AMD's was back then, it can use its memory already very efficent, and i honestly belive Intel is biting the hand that feeds it here. They are growing Lax again, no major arcitutre updates is a bad thing, the season is ripe again for the Empire to be slain by anyone, maybe VIA even this time, maybe IBM, or maybe AMD still has the right stuff. But untill another company steps up, we all play Intel's way or we don't play at all, thats the message Intel is sending.
Then i upgraded to an asus one 
It was a good times, especially chipsets for AMD.
