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"AMD or Pentium"

I'm about to order a new PC but wahted to know whihc processor to go for outof AMD and Pentium and which chip would be best reccomended!!

All comments welcome!!

Ditto Tyla. My next'll be an XP1800/1900, not sure yet. Andi and Phil say I should get an 1800, because they are more easily overclocked or something.

AMD it is then... looking at an XP1600 then!

Excellent... I have no intention of using my PC to play games, but need it to be gutsy enough to run loads of prosessor intentsive software...

Nope.

The 1.4ghz beat the top-spec 2ghz P4 in the graphic design benchmark, so the XPs will just blow it out of the water.

Depends if you want to play games AMD wins if you want to do things like Graphic design the P4 is better.

nuff said

*bounces*

AMDAMDAMD.

Ahem.

Ditto what Andi said really, it's a better performing chip for a lower price with cheaper RAM/mobo to boot. Careful fitting the HSF on to socket A chips though, the die is exposed and fairly fragile..

The P4 2ghz VS T-Bird 1.4ghz benches seem to differ from site to site, suggesting the performance varies between applications, but I'd say fairly confidently that any of the XP chips could take it on. The XP series does support Intel SSE instructions, but not SSE2, so the P4 tends to edge ahead in applications with take advantage of this.

Has to be said, the P4 is a fair competitor once overclocked - they tend to be fairly adept at it, with nice high FSBs, especially the 4x multiplier on all buses, but even with this overall increase in system performance can beat the XP chip, definately not worth it for the price.

AMD. Need I say more?

Maybe I better...

AMD are cheaper, faster and more reliable chips. The only problems you get with amd chips is that they run hotter, meaning more cooling required, meaning more noise (unless you spend a fortune on Papst fans and the zalman flower heatsink and stuff).
People also say that AMDs physical build quality is not as good, as it is possible to crush the core on an AMD chip if you dont take your time and are a bit heavy handed. The P4 is all cased up and stuff so you cant damage it.

Overall though, I'd definetly go for an AMD chip every time.

AMDs do support MMX though, at least my K6-2 does. What you really should be looking at is 3DNOW! which is an advanced MMX, and contains MMX in it as well. Food for thought: In all but one standard benchmark tests the Thunderbird 1.4ghz outperformed the latest Pentium 4 2ghz. The one the AMD only just fell behind on was standard office software benchmark.

AMD may not have the mmx technology but they have 3d now technology which is just as good if not better, one thing when looking for the speed you want for your cpu you should know, the AMD thunderbird xp cpu's arent rated in mhz for there performance anymore i.e the thunderbird xp 1800+ cpu runs at 1533mhz but because it uses "QUANTISPEED" technology it perfrom's the same if not better then an Intel pentium 4 1800 cpu also you can use DDR (double data rate) ram in the AMD cpu systems which outperfroms rambus which the P4 systems use, intel have baught out a motherboard that supports DDR ram but i would still go AMD.

c.b.

Sounds like he knows his Mwwwwahahahha. Naughty word checker, I spit on you.

Were are you planning on buying this pc from ?

i would definatly go for an AMD athlon thunderbird xp chip as they outperform the intel cpu's.

C.b.