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<blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1295341" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>laptop or desktop? build yourself, storebought or ordered off the web? budget pc, average pc, high end pc or extreme gaming pc? Will you be playing games, rendering pictures, ripping CDs, writing PDFs, programming databases or just surfing the net? Pentium 4, Celeron, Athlon XP or Athlon 64? What is your tech level with PC's you a do it yourselfer or a never open the box type?</p><p></p><p>I could go on, what you've asked the the equivilant of a Coke vs Pepsi question, or a Ford vs Chevy one. Which one is better? well that depends on what you want out of it. If you are looking from a strictly budget standpoint go with the AMD processors, AMD machines are always cheaper at the same levels and performance is always similar (only a real computer junky could tell the difference between the two at similar rankings) but there are several areas where the intel P4s are much better than the AMD chips and areas where the AMD chips are better. If you are just wanting to surf the web and play some occasional games, with some occasional office or word work then you might as well get a Celeron processor (web surfing is not all that dependant on how fast your computer is). Here is the best help I can give you, do some research and shop around before you buy anything, there are so many variables that go into what makes a computer a good one, the fastest processor out there with a cut rate video card is still a crappy machine for games for instance, and having more and faster memory is as important if not more important that processor speeds.</p><p> </p><p>Link to wonderful article comparing current Intel & AMD cpu's: <a href="http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031223/index.html" target="_blank">http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031223/index.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jdavis, post: 1295341, member: 8704"] laptop or desktop? build yourself, storebought or ordered off the web? budget pc, average pc, high end pc or extreme gaming pc? Will you be playing games, rendering pictures, ripping CDs, writing PDFs, programming databases or just surfing the net? Pentium 4, Celeron, Athlon XP or Athlon 64? What is your tech level with PC's you a do it yourselfer or a never open the box type? I could go on, what you've asked the the equivilant of a Coke vs Pepsi question, or a Ford vs Chevy one. Which one is better? well that depends on what you want out of it. If you are looking from a strictly budget standpoint go with the AMD processors, AMD machines are always cheaper at the same levels and performance is always similar (only a real computer junky could tell the difference between the two at similar rankings) but there are several areas where the intel P4s are much better than the AMD chips and areas where the AMD chips are better. If you are just wanting to surf the web and play some occasional games, with some occasional office or word work then you might as well get a Celeron processor (web surfing is not all that dependant on how fast your computer is). Here is the best help I can give you, do some research and shop around before you buy anything, there are so many variables that go into what makes a computer a good one, the fastest processor out there with a cut rate video card is still a crappy machine for games for instance, and having more and faster memory is as important if not more important that processor speeds. Link to wonderful article comparing current Intel & AMD cpu's: [url="http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031223/index.html"]http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031223/index.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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