intel isn't my types for games never was either, they always got PWNed by AMD CPU's, thier HT failed most of the time in all games never was such a great success in the first place anyways, it mostly made them slower, anyways Intel pro's would say the oppisite anyways hehe.
though there were a few games that did make a 40% proffit in useage of HT like FS 2004 and Jet Fighter III but then again it depends what you do most.
Then agian AMD isn't sitting still that Conroe thing isn't fully available yet either and I personally think that AMD might have something sweet up thier sleeves, like they allways did.
I still went for the X2 4400+ Toledo S939 with Dual DDR 400 2x 1GB PC3200 C2PT from Corsair XMS Platinum TwinX series, since that DDR2 667 is slower in most cases than dual DDR400 and you will need the very expensive DDR2 800 to beat the dual DDR 400 just by a thin margin of 4%.
so I think the whole Conroe thing is too expensive there are much cheaper and better designs which can provide the same type of sollution.
Do the same with less money go for AMD!
p.s. didn't put this AMD Arrow logo in my floor for nothing