AMD: Barcelona quad-core 50% faster than Intel’s quad-core Xeon

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that chart doesnt show me anything tbh.

My point was that not all AMD CPUs have better performance/price than Intel CPUs.

for people that DONT overclock wich is the majority and dont demand ot much from a PC wich is also the majority AMD is atm the best solution.

I agree. But there are people who DO overclock and are demanding more performance than the average user. For them, AMD is not the best choice.

i can pick up a X2 3600 for 55 euro.
i can pick up a decent Nforce4 mobo for 45 euro.

Yes, thats an excellent budget combo, which costed 3 times more a year ago. Probably it offers the best performance/price, but not all people are looking for the less expensive CPU and mainboard.

cheapest core2duo is some 90 euro and then u stil got to add the motherboard.

Also the C2D budget mainboards are little beat more expensive than K8 budget mainboards. On the other side, almost without a performance penalty you can use a DDR2-533 on a C2D system and save some money.

So sorry but for people that dont overclock AMD is the cheapest thus best solution.

I disagree. Like I said eariler, some AMD CPUs have better performance/price than some Intel CPUs. For example the C2D E4300 and the E4400 are performing faster than X2 4400+ and X2 4800+, but are costing same. And if we consider the power consumption, the heat dissipation and the overclockability, than the C2D's are much better choice over K8.