War of the Dual Core - AMD vs Intel

The processor chip technology has gone to the new era after the 64bit technology. Now everyone is talking about the dual core processor. I have found few interesting website which they have done some testing on Intel Dual and AMD dual, as comparison in terms of performance, stability, performance cost per watt and etc.

Do take note that the wattage consumption is not cheap by using the dual core processor. As the consistent gamers like us, I believe we need to think twice before investing on such technology.

The followings are some summary which extracted from the website. Article extracted from http://www.tomshardware.com/ arthur: Frank Völkel, Bert Töpelt, Daniel Schuhmann.

• Thus, when making a purchasing decision, the question to ask is whether or not multiple applications will be running simultaneously. If the answer is yes, then the Intel Pentium 840 EE is your first choice. Otherwise, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ will give you much better performance for single applications.
• In the end, we can conclude that the Intel Pentium 840 EE should be used with a motherboard that has the Intel 955X chipset. We do not recommend its use with a board with NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI chipset.
  With the AMD platform you've only got one option, which fortunately is stable: to combine the AMD platform with a motherboard based on NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI chipset. The results of our stress test show that the nForce4 SLI chipset for the AMD platform has matured.
• With no load on the systems, you can already see the difference between the Intel and the AMD platforms - the Intel system uses 13% more power than AMD. This increases to 30% when both systems are running under a full load.