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Intel actually does have an upgrade path.
 
AMD promissed full upgradability, but has not delivered it.
 
 
In terms of upgradability I don't think one company is much better than the other.

Neh, more of a the Mobo manufacturers have yet to bother updating their Bios code.  Likely due to being unsure of whether the Agena based AM2+ cpu's were going to sell much.  
 
I can't say anything bad about upgrade path.  The ASRock ALive Nf7g HDReady board I have has Bios support at bios 1.9, and TLB fix at bios 2.0.  The MSI K9mm-v doesn't seem to have a bios update since last october, so no phenom support yet.  

Man, prices are falling fast. Just got a Newegg add and I see I could upgrade my old 939 machine to an AM2 with a 5000+ BE and 4 gig of ram, plus a mobo of course, for around $300, $400 if I want a performance mobo. That would work for a temporary gamer and later business machine for very little money.
 
So much temptation. Where's a nice redheaded woman to distract me?

 
Yup, which is why I ended up sticking with AMD when my old 2100 XP system started to die(fan on the northbridge hs stopped working/seized up).  Well, that and at the time AM2 seemed to be the only platform I could use if I wanted to get a modern processor and have a board that still had an AGP slot at the time, couldn't find one on newegg for intel based.  

 
Im chating on IM with one right now. She's 25 yo, bodaciosly buxom, got amazing blue eyes, and she's so naive that she wont know what hit her. Want me to ask if she's got a sister?    

 
Whelp... you didn't look hard enough:
 
ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 LGA 775 VIA PT880 Pro/PT880 Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard
 
It even suggests that is supports the quad Q6600. (1066 FSB)
 
I may end up getting this MB for my E4400, when or if I upgrade my current system with a quad.  
 
That way I still can use my 6800GS agp thats still on my old P4 X4 agp system.

 
If she wasn't a thousand miles away, I'd say, "Why not?"    

 
You know Grimmy, as much as you love that old 6800GS, maybe its time to get something a little more modern.    

. o O (that card is only 2 years old.... Edit: I brought it on 1/17/2006)

O'well... its just going to be ran on my linux.  Funny though, when I did run that card, I kinda thought perhaps it was going bad, since my XP home seem to crap out on it, and most of the errors that MS notified me were hardware video problems.  One of the help fixes was to turn off the hardware acceleration.

Heh... whelp, that old system has ran pertty much over a month (FC5-linux) with no reboots, problems, errors, or anything.  So I don't wanna part with it.  

 
Perhaps I shouldn't talk too much. I had an old 9800 Pro card which get used for years, finally dying while in service on my son's computer a couple months ago. A heatsink in his HP came loose and fell on the circuit board, starting a shower of sparks and ending with the demise of the whole machine. Never had near the problems with that old card as I do with these news things. Of course, cards were a lot simpler back then.

Oh yeah, I got ya beat.  I still have an old Geforce FX5600 Ultra AGP running on an old Athlon XP 2100+ rig.  It all still works fine, all I need to do is replace the hsf on the northbridge as the fan seems to have seized up on it, Abit NF7 v2.0.  Just gotta watch the CPU temp on it, as it likes run hot, granted I may have fixed that problem after taking it apart and putting it all back together a couple weeks ago.  Didn't know as much about cooling when I put the HSF unit on the cpu and applied the thermal paste as I do now.