$300 Gaming CPU's: AMD 5000+ Versus Intel E6600
The battle of the "budget" processors...

"As for which processor wins the battle? The answer really isn't that easy to answer. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 AM2 processors have a ton of support in the market right now. You can find AMD AM2 motherboards running chipsets from ATI, VIA and NVIDIA all over the place. An example of this is Newegg and the fact that they carry 36 AMD AM2 motherboards with the prices starting as low as $63 for one of these boards. If you look at the Intel side of the market it's still just starting out with very few Intel 965 Express based motherboards on the market. This morning Newegg only lists five Intel 965 Express Core 2 Duo ready motherboards with pricing starting out at $148 and two of the five are sold out. With the Intel 965 Express chipset being out for nearly six weeks I expected more than five motherboards to available today. Like I pointed out in my launch article the limiting factor for Intel will be their chipsets. "

Read all about it here, courtesy of LegitReviews:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/365/1/

-Eric