Wow.. great writing. Very interesting.
I prefer intel. With all the systems I saw the pentium pc's gave the best results and the least problems. I saw only a few dual processor things with AMD processors and I had the illusion that they were working better as intel dual processor pc's, but I don't know that for sure because I only saw two.. AMD is easier to overclock, but my experiences with overclocking never were good so I don't overclock anything anymore.