need advice - AMD or Intel ?

[trk1980]

i am planning to build a system but i am confused whether to build a AMD system or a intel system. i found that almost all hardware sites and computer magazines are in favor of AMD machines and AMD systems outperformed intel machines in most of the benchmarks.however,in the competitive performance guide,which i found on AMD website,a comparision is made between AMD Athlon 64 4000+ and intel pentium4 550 3.4GHZ and AMD comes out as the winner.though AMD is the clear winner,the average performance difference is only about 20%.considering the fact that Athlon 64 4000+ costs more than $350 to that of pentium4 550 3.4GHZ i think p4 is the best buy.i believe the same is the case with other AMD and intel processors.thats why i chose intel.this is my base configuration.

1) ASUS P5AD2-E Premium motherboard based on 925XE chipset ($275)
2) Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 540 supporting HT Technology @ 3.2GHZ / SOCKET LGA775 ($250)
3) Kingston HyperX 1024MB PC5400 675Mhz Dual Channel DDR2 Memory 2 x 512MB ($325)

is there a better AMD system or for that matter a better intel system for the same price ?

 

[Analog]

INTeL

 

[sniperruff]

AMD is faster and wrong forum

 

[Kishan]

get a A64 Winchester 3500+

 

[Coquito]

If you want to do nothing but play games all day, then amd is the way to go. If you do alot of multitasking, intel is what I would choose.

 

[txxxx]

Truth be told, there's not much difference in performance between the P4 and Athlon64. Although I'd pick A64 as its much more efficient and easier to cool. And as for "Intel + HT = better multitasking", someone around here tested this in a server situation with Antivirus and serving. The AMD won by quite a bit. HT is only useful for applications that cannot saturate the P4's pipeline.

 

[PlatinumGold]

i don't know why i keep reading that Intel is better at multi tasking. it ISN'T. the p4 was the worst CPU design by intel EVER.

if i'm looking for a multitasking beast i'll take the P3 XEON over the p4 ANY DAY.

A64 is the better cpu all around at the moment. if intel would move the Centrino cpu over to the desktop and give up on the P4, they might be able to compete.

 

[aircooled]

either works fine.

 

[artikk]

AMD=better for gaming
Intel=better for vidoe editing/rendering/endcoding