pentium or amd athelon???

no p4 with ht doesnt support 64 bit computing .
u need to pget the amd 64 processor for tht
p 4 3 gig equivalent is the amd 3000 !!
they name it very aptly !
tho ofcourse it doesnt match 3gigz .. it matches performance
yet id still say pentium !

costly but still pentium4

Hi i will also go with Pentium4.

wait for some time and you will get 64 bit pentium version.

xp 64bit is also there to help you.

bye

avi

why on earth do u want a 64 bit processor anyway..????

AMD is generally better value wise, but the higher P4 ht processors are good. It all depends on the cost ... And yeah, if an AMD 64 3000+ fits in the budget, go for it. It will give nearly equal performance to the p4 3 ghz, and add 64 bit support.

AMD is cheaper, Intel processors are costly...
Intel has been i the market for a decade...amd is new

So it depends on what matters most to you...if it's cost, go for an AMD
If you want stability, reliability etc, go for an Intel (i'm not saying AMD aint stable...just that it's new)

PENTIUM MY LOVE

dood
a pentium 4 2.8 ghz runs at 2800mhz
a amd athlon xp 2800+ runs at 2083mhz
yet it performs on par with a p4 2.8
and the amd does with with a mhz deficieny of 717mhz
now u dont need to be a PhD in nuclear physics to tell which is a better product and to add icing to the cake amd costs lower than a pentium 4

frankly speaking U DONT NEED A 64 BIT PROCESSOR FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS ATLEAST AT HOME USER LEVEL

so i'd advise to go in for a amd athlon xp processor now with a nforce2 based mother board (i'd suggest ASUS A7N8X-E Delux)

if u want a p4 system wait a bit for newer prescott processors and newer boards on the grantsdale chipset

cos the present mobo's dont utilize the entire potential of prescotts

so if u want amd go now

if u want pentium wait a bit

and IF U DO want to go in for a 64 bit processor
go in for a amd athlon 64 or athlon 64 fx51

use VIA KT800 chipset based mobo or nForce3 based board

the choice is urs

but my vote goes to AMD
enjoy

When it comes to price/performance amd is better. But I've to admit that it is offset by the high cost of motherboards that support amd(They are really scarce,and praise assus).

AMD vs Intel

The question of AMD or Pentium purely depends on your requirements. The number crunching power of Pentiums are much better than AMD, thus making them a better gaming/graphics rendering processor. On the other hand AMD has better pipelines. Also AMD processors have the unique property of being able to rename registers on the fly, thus saving precious processor cycles which Intel processors spend MOVing data from one register to the other. Considering the price aspect, AMDs are definitely the winner. But again Pentium motherboards are comparatively cheaper.

Subhro

well said sinnet ... well said

Depends on your use. For all normal use, AMD is no problem at all. Actually, in some of the benchmarks, AMD performed better. Its cheaper too!!

first of all thnx raven
secondly
AMD mobo's arent costly !!
a krypton mobo with nforce2 chipset costs like 3.8k (ddr400/ata133/5.1soundetc)
where as even though the ASUS A7N8X-E Delux mobo is costly compared to other amd mobo's it's price is justified !!
cos it has IEEE1394/SATA150/Soundstorm Dolby 5.1/SPDIF/WIFI SLOT/NVIDIA LAN/GIGABIT LAN/TWIN BANK MEMORY ARCHITECTURE/and other frills
put all these in a intel based board and the price shoots up beyond the cost of the amd board
so saying they r costly and rare is not exactly justifiable
and earlier ppl said amd's get HOT !!
but look at present 478 pin prescotts they GET HOT hehe
neway
finally the choice is for buyer to make
enjoy