Paul Murphy had the audacity to say:

The cpu's are a little different. The difference being that the Cyrstal 4324 is definately not anywhere near as good quality as a Sounblaster AWE32. The AMD chips, for the price are better performers than the Intel CPUs. You also don't want to compare speed for speed performance, try upgradeability and price comparisons. Maybe a K6-2 266 is almost as fast as a P55C-233MMZ for non-optimized FPU math, the P55C is about 2x the price in cost. If you buy a K6-2 400 (still cheaper than a P55C 233 and even a PII-300, yet kick both asses) you are getting better performance for a cheaper price. If you compare the PII-400 vs. the K6-2 400, of course the PII-400 will win, but they are about $130. The K6-2 400 is only $40-$50 and dropping. Just wait until you can get a nice Socket A board for your server with an early Duron 600 for $70 for the CPU and $100 for the mobo. Beat that with intel chips? I don't think so. On top of that, the Duron's will be SMP-able in the near future with the AMD770.