Quote Originally Posted by SparkyJJO View Post
AM3, new socket, ready to go for future upgrades.

775, dead platform, end of life for it.

I'd go AM3 so as to not lock myself to having to again buy a new board/ram/CPU for the next upgrade.
I'm not saying that is an unreasonable approach to take, but with the difference in platform costs, one might be able to buy a DDR2 platform(motherboard & Ram) for either AMD or Intel and then a DDR3 platform 12 months later, for the same price as buying a DDR3 platform now, but get better overall performance and system life.

At this point in time I am not sold on the benefits of DDR3 for either side.

Actually won't a PhII processor work in either a DDR2 platform or a DDR3 one?

If so, that is a big advantage they will have.