Turb0Yoda :
Fanboys flock to this post.
Anyway, The AMD-9350 is the best on a budget.
The Extreme Edition i7 if your backyard has money trees.
And the Xeon for amazing servers.
And of course, the powerpc chip in my friends bondi blue imac for sheer hilariousness.
Did you mean 9370? It's a nice CPU, but considering a 4670 almost matches it with multithreaded performance and destroys it with singlethreaded performance, I would rather get the Intel chip. Maybe I'm a fanboy, but I like to think I've got good reasoning
I agree with you about the i7s though. If you can afford 'em, they're the best, but they'll cost you a pretty penny.