Thanks. I will probably have to keep this CPU till it dies anyway and from what I see, there isn't that much of a difference between them anyway. I've read an extensive review of the Vishera based FX models here and it seems that AMD CPUs are pretty damn good in multithreaded tasks, but Intel is way ahead of them when it comes to single-threaded performance. Reading more about this (same site), it seems that CPU intensive games, especially MMOs will underperform on AMD systems... causing bottlenecks. Not that I expect my CPU to bottleneck my dated 260GTX...