the new quadcore of AMD is:
1. As cheap as the lowest quadcore of Intel QX6600 (?) at the same performance speed... so normal price
2. Easily upgradable - can be mapped both on old mother board chipsets and new (this strategy of AMD makes it very very easy to upgrade, without replacing Mobo, ram and etc)
3. Superb memory controller, which allows you to work with up to 4 video cards in Crossfire (whoa... not for me yet)
4. The first real quadcore single processor!!! The Intel "quadcore" is a combination of two dualcores...