Looks like you got a space heater in the making there. A glowing blue one at that.

Intel spanks AMD in benchmarks mostly because of the large ammounts of L2 on it. AMD's tend to run much hotter than Intel's as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115018 Q6600 - $234
Cheapest Intel Quad Core, Gives a full 6MB more L2 (4MB if you include the L3 on the Phenom)