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"Dare I ask........Intel or AMD?"

I bet I am gonna start a huge debate, but here goes. I am a gamer, and I want a fast processor. Is there any noticable difference between the AMD Athlon and the Pentium 4 when using a computer? I am talking about the top end ones here, over 2Ghz. I was going to get the P4 2.4Ghz for £1100, but SR have dropped the price, and the one for £1100 now is the AMD 2600+. Is this OK, cos I don't really want to fork out another £100 just to buy pentium.

I bet I am gonna start a huge debate, but here goes. I am a gamer, and I want a fast processor. Is there any noticable difference between the AMD Athlon and the Pentium 4 when using a computer? I am talking about the top end ones here, over 2Ghz. I was going to get the P4 2.4Ghz for £1100, but SR have dropped the price, and the one for £1100 now is the AMD 2600+. Is this OK, cos I don't really want to fork out another £100 just to buy pentium.

Well first of all you gotta take off 400mhz from the AMD to get a comparison to an Intel Pentium processor. ie. an AMD 2600 is equivelent to an Intel 2200. I dont know much about them but i have heard that AMD is the prefered choice. Cant tell you why though as i dont know

Depends how much balls you have really. If you're not afraid of overclocking your AMD should blow any P4 out of the water, especially pound for pound. Else, well it's a close call. If I wasn't in to overclocking and I had more money than sense I'd buy a P4.

But that would be madness.

Depends on what speed you're looking for. Right now, the P4 2.4Ghz is a steal, any faster than that, and you're better off with AMD though.

Oh dear the old intel vs AMD war, well if you are going to overclock then i would go for a Pentium 4 as they overclock a lot more than athlons but if you are going for a gaming system and are not into divx movies and a lot of graphical content then got for the AMD, it is purely up to you.

c.b.

I don't know- I've got a Pentium 4 2Ghz, which f**ks up ME, but runs perfectly on XP. Good for gaming though, but I think I need more ram, and a faster processor.

You think you need a processor faster than 2GHz for games?!?!?!

Are you feeling OK??

With my Athlon 2000+
512mb PC2100 RAM
Radeon 8500

I run every game 100% smooth, including UT2K3, which runs around 40-50fps, the rest of my games run well over 65fps.

Memo, you forget that the majority of people who own PCs share a common skill (or lack thereof, depending on how you look at it), and that is the inability to maintain a stable PC system...

I don't actually have anything to reply to that really, so I'll just stretch this out, which I'm already doing, so....

Laugh Out Loud.

Memorandum wrote:
> You think you need a processor faster than 2GHz for games?!?!?!
>
> Are you feeling OK??
>
> With my Athlon 2000+
> 512mb PC2100 RAM
> Radeon 8500
>
> I run every game 100% smooth, including UT2K3, which runs around
> 40-50fps, the rest of my games run well over 65fps.

I think my ME Pc is duff- My XP works well though. Can't think why I never updated my ME Pc though.