Ever since Intel has come out on top with their 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo E6700 against an overclocked AMD Athlon 64 FX-60, things have been pretty quiet on the platform front. Still, this does not mean that you have to wait to upgrade. Seriously, there are motherboards that will support both Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors.

From a platform point of view, the last few months have been rather slow. There have been no significant chipset innovations, and the processor speeds of both CPU players have not increased. This summer, however, things will change dramatically. AMD is on the verge of a significant platform transition that is starting now. For its part, Intel will replace its good old Pentium family with the all-new Core 2 processor family in the summer, as it works to be reinstated as the undisputed #1 processor company.

Intel has emerged victorious in preliminary benchmark runs that compared the 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo E6700 against an overclocked AMD Athlon 64 FX-60. Those test systems were assembled and installed by Intel, but our own benchmark results give little reason to doubt the company’s performance claims. In fact, we are pretty sure that Intel will at least make up for the current gap in performance and energy efficiency - it will likely overtake AMD sometime this summer…. Source: Tom’s Hardware

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