As the subject of being influenced has been broached, I have to say that I've been *totally* influenced by the Q6600 system that I bought. Not even going to consider buying any more AMD chips unless they can bring out something that tops the q6600 for price and performance to include motherboard and memory.Even on the psp sieving that I've been crunching on where AMD used to have the edge over Intel, the q6600 runs circles around anything I can put together using amd for the same bang for the buck.