I will not be purchasing AMD processors for gaming.

Great! Because I didn't either

Here is my philosophy when it comes to this system I'm building: I'm building a computer to replace this:
Dell 550MHz
256MB RAM
with this:
AMD Athlon 2100+ (1.73GHz -right?)
1GB PC2700 RAM

I am not running Quake 3 benchmarks on this thing. You want to know my main reason for upgrading? compressing video into wmv format and rendering video in Premiere. It takes all night at the moment for very short files. Of course, that's hardly the full reason for upgrading, but it's a big part.

The only game I have bought in the past year and a half was this past weekend I got GTA3 for PC, and that's only going to be a diversion for me.

What was important for me was price, and if you're like me, for that reason AMD has Intel beat every in every way.

Now we'll see how well this system goes together