The new Intel Core 2 QUAD is the most powerful processor ever made. It has four cores in just one processor which means if it runs at 2 GHZ each you have 8 GHZ of power in your hands.
The biggest advantages are the increase amount of instructions it can get per clock cycle, the wider pipeline that executes commands faster and the reduced fan noise thanks to the four pin connector that decreases fan speed when the CPU is not so hot.
The features of this new CPU are the 2.4 GHZ clock speed, 8 mb of cache size, 1044 mhz bus speed.
If you want to have the fastest processor in the world in your hands then I recommend you this one absolutely!
Intel is still the best processor manufacturer in the world and I bet AMD will never be able to catch up Intel.
Intel spends in Research and Development the same amount AMD get in revenues!
You can see that AMD has a very long way to run before dreaming of being the number one processor manufacturer.