Athlon v Pentium?
 

there has probably been a thread on this already, and for that i apologize. But im buying a new computer and i was wondering if any one has any opinions on which is better and why?

I like Pentium 4.

IBM's are less expensive and are about the same as Intel's processors. However if you want long lasting reliability, Intel biggrin: Thats just an opinion though.

thanks. im more looking for price but i want reliability as well.

i have an athalon. it runs fine.

I have an AMD, I hear its great for overclocking, but I havent dont that to mine. My first was a P3 450mhz and it was great. I think Intel makes the best, but its just an uneducated guess.

new AMD owns pent.

well im either getting an AMD athlon 64 3400 2.2GHz or the Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz. So between those which one u think is better.

[quote="Bean 2":6ed51]well im either getting an AMD athlon 64 3400 2.2GHz or the Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz. So between those which one u think is better.[/quote:6ed51]

AMD athlon 64 3400

AMD 64 bit by a long shooot. + It will be equipped for 64 bit OS of the future.'

AMD = cheap and relaible, i stil have a old duron 500 mhz i beleive going like brand new in another room. CPU's are never really the wear out part, most HD's will fail before it. Just keep um kool and all will be fine. biggrin:

Yea i think ill go with the AMD. Thanks fellas.

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ATHLON OWNS

go with an athlon man.. cheaper.. and better too...

Unless you intend on doing a lot of computationally-intensive tasks like
MP3 encoding, video encoding and using CAD applications, there's simply
NO REASON to purchase a P4 when an Athlon XP/64 at half the price and
speed will outperform it in almost every respect. I've recently assembled
a really nice gaming rig on the A64+KT800 architecture and it has yet to
let me down... Farcry runs like a dream and Windows XP loads in 10 secs...

Athlon