Yeah, AMD and Intel are uncomparable, really. I had for awhile a Intel Duron 2.7GHz Recently, after my computer went kaput, I got a new comp with AMD Athlon XP 3000+ with Barton Core. Alough the clock time on my AMD (~2.2GHz) was not as fast as my Intel (2.7GHz), it still made my computer faster. It does this by all said above, faster processing, more fsb, and so on.