The Phenom= Win
Intel = Fail

Intel can say it has 3 GHz quad core processing because of the architecture. Intel has an L1 cache that goes to two L2 Caches and then those go to two L3 caches. So it's two DUAL cores smacked together and linked by an L1 cache. It will back up, things get jammed in there, and it slows it down. AMD avoided that problem by actually creating an L1 cache that went to 4 L2 caches. It creates less back up, they go directly to the cores which goes for more reliability, and more speed.

Therefore your silly benchmarks are worthless because when handling multiple applications the Intels fail because of their little traffic jam for information. I'll take my four completely independent processors that work together over the 2 crap dual cores from Intel anyday.

More so, I'd rather spend $200 on a chip that I can easily upgrade in a year when the 8 core chips come out rather than be stuck with an outdated architecture that will be burnt out once Intel realized it can't keep overclocking old chips and getting inferior results. My Phenom(9500) slightly overclocked to 2.4 GHz a core got a 3750 3D Mark Score compared to the Q6700 which costs almost twice as much which scored a 3800. So for $200 more I can get 50 more points with something that can't handle different affinity? AMD > Intel anyday of the week.