I can attest to that, Nickname is a major AMD/ATI fanboy but he’s a closet Intel/Nvidia consumer.
AMD has the cheaper processors and motherboards, there’s no question about that, but when it comes to performance per MHz and performance per dollar Intel wins every time in every category except ultra-low power. In ULP AMD wins for now until Intel releases the new Atom next year with a 50% increase in clock-for-clock performance and out-of-order execution.