Ill take any advice, explain reasoning I need to learn about the current hardware situation anyway.neon_black
Well the thing is that AMD is maintaining compatability throughout AM2, AM2+, and AM3 CPUs. Intel while they've been on LGA 775 for probably the past five or six years don't maintain forward compatability between different CPU generations too well.
So AMD has just launched their Phenoms (AM2+), which are slower than Core 2 Quads clock for clock, but they may end up being equal valuewise to the Core 2 Quads. They will work on AM2 motherboards, but they will have a slight performance hit and when the AM3 CPUs come around they probably won't be compatable with AM2 motherboards.
If you were to get an AM2+ motherboard, which right now are mostly the high-end enthusiast kind then you'll be able to use CPUs that use Socket AM2, AM2+ and later down the road AM3 so you'll have lots of options.
Also the Spider platform that AMD is pushing is supposed to be a lot less expensive than the Intel/Nvidia alternative, but you'll still need to buy a new motherboard and CPU, so it won't be cheap.
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