The task of selecting a processor platform today can be daunting. While the stats indicate that Intel holds the market share there is no doubt about that. They are in the lead by a considerable margin. After all they are the best right? Personally we build many of both, and I personally am not certain that blind leading the blind approach is correct.

While for some people options only mean more daunting decisions personally I like options. It typically means if someone is well informed they may end up with something simply not available with some other selection. The point of this article is that AMD has an edge that few people with Intel could ever enjoy. The three chipset providers for AMD fight to provide new features to support the Core Processor or CPU. In the case of Intel you get the Intel chipset for good or bad that is what you get as a option.

The unique low-latency architecture of the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI MCPs offers one of the industry’s best core-logic solution with outstanding performance and the latest technologies—SLI, PCI Express, secure high-speed networking, and high-performance storage—and ensures that your PC stays ready for the newest games, future applications, and next-generation PC specifications. 
The competition with chipsets has clearly given options you cannot find in Intel based machines. All three Via,SiS, and nVidia offer things like 8 channel SATA, on board hardware firewalls. Yet with Intel you will not find these why simple lack of competition.