@ programexpert You're right about the motherboard, I don't know why I said socket 1366, I meant 775. The prices, however, are still exponentially more than AMD motherboards. ESPECIALLY any capable of 3-way SLI. In fact, the only ones even with free shipping and a cost less than $160 are all open-box items, so those don't even count as retail equivalents since their return policy is non-existant, and there is no warranty whatsoever (even if it's DOA you'll be out of luck). The reason why I mentioned DDR3 for the Intel mobo and DDR2 (1066 to be precise) for the AMD mobo is because it's hard to find an Intel motherboard with the aforementioned compatibility, AND be DDR2 capable. Almost all of them are DDR3-only since Intel is so top-of-the-line. Also, the memory caches for both processors are the same. Clock speed is the only difference, so that's all I compared it to. The better one, which is the AMD Phenom 9950, is $40 less than the Q6600. Unless you want to pay for a brand name, I see no reason to pay more for a processor that can do less here. Plus, the processor had a rebate and free shipping when I ordered it, granted it was only holiday special savings, but Intel didn't have any similar deals, so AMD wins.

@ ujustgotpwned12 You're wrong to say that the price difference isn't that much. I just recently put in an order for a new computer on Newegg, and at first I was planning to go Intel since the Q6600's price drop. But the mobo's are more, the memory costs more, and I was only getting 2.4 GHz with a $189 CPU. When I priced out the AMD computer, the CPU was only $159 for an AMD Phenom 9950, at 2.6 GHz. But, if that doesn't mean anything to you, here's the best part. I got an AMD motherboard for it capable of hooking up to 3 PCIe 16x video cards, for only $100 and free shipping (and there were ones for far less, but it wasn't compatible with the build I wanted). The LGA 1366 socket motherboard for Intel with 3-way SLI is $299, plus shipping. That's one of their better deals, too. For a price like that, you might as well suck it up and get a better video card with your money instead of buying an overpriced mobo capable of holding 3 crappy video cards you have. In my book, AMD is well on their way to winning the battle against the pretentious penny-pickers over at Intel.