Coming from a P45+E8400 combo, when you have to pay 260€ for the mobo, 260€ for the CPU and 150-200€ for 3x2GB DDR3 you start looking at what AMD has to offer with interest. The world's economy is not going to lower prices, at least not here (mainly because we are not as bad as the US). And if this thing can clock to 4+GHz with acceptable power consumption (with seems to be the case) and with better perfomance than current Yorks it's a no brainer for me. However, if I had the money I'd go for Nehalem, no doubts. Its perfomance is going to be higher.