[JSLTIGER]

It kind of depends what you're looking for. If you are talking about all out gaming performance regardless of cost, Intel's Core i7s can't be beat. AMD's fastest offerings can be competitive, and tend to be cheaper, but they cannot outclass Intel's higher end offerings even though they offer a better bang for the $. As a result, I voted for Intel despite the fact that either company's CPUs are perfectly fine to be gaming with. More important to a system these days for gaming is the graphics card. If you want a good gaming experience, you should go for either ATi's 5800 series or nVidia's 470/480 cards in order to make your system last for a while.