Also I have read that Intel goes with Nvidia and AMD with Ati?
Go smack whoever told you that. Utter BS.

If you are a gamer, go with AMD. For just about everything, intel and AMD are neck in neck, but in gaming AMD has that one inch over intel, and that nice $50 to fill your pocket.

Probably shouldn't go with dual core AMD yet for gaming... They still haven't quite caught up with the normal 64 bit stuff.

Oh yeah, AMD=you are ready for next gen software (64 bit)