http://xtreview.com/review204.htm
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/displ...tium-e2160.html

unlike AMD K8, Intel Core architecture, is placing more emphasize on L2 cache. From the benchmark, in certain tests esp gaming, you will see that with Athlon X2 and E2xxx, both having same 1 MB L2 cache, Pentium E loses to AMD. But anyway, Intel Core is sweet at its OCbility get a rm250 proc u may OC it on par with X6800 if u re lucky, but it shoudlnt be a problem to OC till 2.5 Ghz at least. That will pawn many higher end AMD X2 alrdy

but in another case, if u re a regular who dont OC, then I say go with AMD is better, at least its better in gaming and comes with hardware virtualization support.