I do wonder a few things. Why not use the same hard drive. Instead they use a 200 dollar hd vs 100 dollar hd. Then there is a the actual motherboard. The intel is running on a micro-itx which is bottom self for gaming performance vs atx. But the amd is using a full atx motherboard. Just seems odd that they would make such huge differences in lay out, then claim that they have big differences in results compared to everyone else.