Athlon 64 vs P4

[Kaijufan]

I would recomend the Athlon 64 processor.

 

[suklee]

A64

 

[imported_Harbinger]

Originally posted by: andyadler
Intriguing topic, as always. I'm wondering the same thing, but in my circumstances I do no gaming and virtually no 3D work, as Photoshop is my principal application. I understand that lots of RAM, big, fast hard drives, etc. is of paramount importance, but strictly in terms of CPU performance, would I be better off with an Athlon64 or Intel chip? I'm on the verge of ordering an Athlon 3500 Socket 939 CPU with either an MSI K8N Neo Platinum or an Asus A8V, with at least 2 gigs of RAM, lots of fast storage, and so on. I don't want to overspend, but money really isn't a deciding factor (within reason, that is). The cooler-running AMD chips are attractive on that score alone.

Any thoughts?


thanks in advance...aa

I might be wrong but as far as I am concerned Photoshop mostly relies in fpu power in order to work faster (filters etc) and if thats trully the case Amd is better than intel fpu-wise. Anyway I am not an amd fan-boy, I want the best for my bucks and Amd right now seems the logical choise for me. My last intel was a P100Mhz overclocked at 120Mhz with 32mb ram etc You get the idea...

 

[MaskedAvenger]

If you are doing SETI@Home or other distributed computing, get a P4. You can run two slightly slower processes at once and get more work units done per day