Intel core I7-920 2.66 GHZ or amd phenom II X4 955 3.2GHZ

I am planning on buying a pc, howevere i can't figure out wether an intel i7 core 920 2.66 GHZ pc will actualy give me more than an amd phenom II X4 955 3.2 GHZ. Please help me out

to be specific i will be using this pc for progamming applications, for gamming (occasionaly) and in the near future for grafic applications.

I'm asking myself the exact same question for the exact same reasons. From youtube through google to here I'd say [maybe] amd.
Mostly because it is cheaper. If you go for i7 you'll have to overclock to get over 3ghz; and thus reasonable for standard apps. @ work we use intel quadcores @ 2.4 and loading projects in VisualSt takes ages! Amd is already over 3Ghz and costs 50-100 $ less. Not to mention your MBoard will cost 50-200$ less as well (me thinks Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P vs any intel 1366). For working CPU speed is king go for whatever gives higher Ghz. Saying multithread is important is still bullsh!t.(Sorry guys) (:verall coding speaking)

The downsides are overclocking is much easier & stable with intel than AMD (from what I've seen so far I may be wrong by now) and that AMD seems to lock you with crossfire... no SLI. but you can still get 1 powerful geforce to compensate. I'm saying Geforce because regardless of how well ATI does cheap good cards, most gamemakers get in bed with NVIDIA.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2326.html

Like for last Remnant, some games just hate ATI guts. I like ATI so I fell sorry for them, but it's the hard truth.

Ok ok... (Hell I'm no rocket scientist)

And so if we inject overclocking in the equation is that still true? What are the hopes of getting those clock speeds up even a little? Does the i7 still rock more?

All the benchmarks we see these days lie - what gamer *ONLY* has the game installed? NO ONE

Everyones system has A/V, firewall, chat apps, torrents, skype etc running - i7 owns in the real world - only the people who have worked with i7's and use them will know what its all about.

Oh and BTW Psycho - the dual socket nehalem xeon rigs own quad socket AMD parts on the server front - 16 threads total (8 cores + 8 threads) on the Intel will beat 16 real AMD cores easy - check the benches out on Anandtech.