Prescotts wants a lot of power, and thus run really hot, no doubt about that. I've heard people saying their prescotts run between 55 to 60°C when idling (As compared to my AMD64 that wont go over 50 ever at full load)
IMHO, the only real reason to get an Intel CPU is if you are going to encode a lot of video. Intel CPUs are a bit faster there. Otherwise it's AMD all the way.
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