[hindsight]
i would still go for the intel, purely for the work i do on my pc [/hindsight] i only got the amd because of what friends & family were telling me, but as someone else said earlier, its a question of what mobo
my pc = 75% workstation 25% games machine
CASE Silverstone Temjin TJO5 case with 2 x 120mm fans front & rear
CPU Amd 64 4400x2
HSF Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
MOBO Asus A8N-SLI Premium
GRAPHICS XFX 7800gtx 256mb
RAM 2Gb Corsair Twin1024-3500LLPRO
HDD 2 x Western Digital Raptor 76Gb raid 0
SOUNDCARD X-Fi XtremeMusic
DVD DRIVES 2x NEC DVD ND 4550 + 5x ram
POWER Enermax Noisetaker 600w
MONITOR Samsung SyncMaster 970p
CASE FANS 4 x 80mm Akasa Amber
KEYBOARD KeySonic Unbreakable Compact Aluminium USB
MOUSE Logitec MX500
JOYSTICK Saitek Cyborg Evo
GAME PAD Xbox 360 pad
EXTERNAL HDD 80Gb Maxtor