P4 or AMD?

AMD offers equal quality…. The features on the cpu are not the same, but there is no quality problems with an AMD possessor. If you want to overclock you should go for intel tho. And its 533 MHz. both cpus are stable in right conditions… if you are worried about stability, you should look into the chipset more carefully and the amount of ram and brand. Also how many sticks of ram you use will make a difference in the stability.

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who told you that amd overclocks better than intel??? that simply isn't true... possibly the other way around.

anyway, if you want stability you cannot beat an Intel/Intel chipset combo... they are usually lacking in performance by a marginal amount but like i said... if you want stability there is no better option.

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umm.... at first i thought this is a joke, i then i realized you are serious. Well… dood… read my post a bit more carefully and you might find something like “if you want to overclock you should go for intel tho”…. i think its in English... if not let me know so i can edit my post

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dood... you know... if you tell us how much you want to spend, we can give you some awesome system configurations for your price. i think it works best that way and you can edit the stuff you want. that way you have some thing to go by

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Get these components:

Athlon XP 2600+ (333 MHz FSB) or Athlon XP 2400+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
Radeon 9500 Pro BBA

AXP 2400+ will be as fast as P4 2.53 GHz paired with PC2700 DDR.

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A Simple statement would be get either and you will be happy...a noticable performance difference will not be present....I would say if you get an nforce make sure you get a tbred B so you can change mult etc if you plan to overclock...you cant beat the nforce2 combo for the money

Any AMD CPUs based on the Tbred B core are much better overclockers than those with the Tbred A or palomino cores. Id def go 4 a P4 if you plan to overclock tho, I got my P4 2.4 to 2.7Ghz with the retail HSF no prob and i think the limiting factor is my northbridge at the mo not the CPU. I dont think athlons overclock this far.

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2400+ is about $175 USD OEM
2600+ is about $270 USD OEM

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spits right that would be a great comp at a good price point.

i am waiting for ndivia nv dx9.0 to come out and barton..i am not buying now thou till those new tech make old prod drop


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or up to 55*C, which is still not too high but probably a good ceiling to set (because, well, who wants to get to TOO high?)
an athlon is gonna run hotter than a P4

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if your going to spend the extra $$$ for a 2.53ghz P4, then use that money to get a athlonXP 2600 running a 333 FSB.
the performance increase from this is definately noticable, and worth it. but considerably more expensive for AMD. comparable to INTEL prices

personally i would go with AMD. for less money, you can get a VERY comparable processor (faster than a same speed P4 in some areas, not quite so in others). pair that with 333mhz DDR ram at CAS2 (cheaper than RDRam, and not quite as fast, but negligible performance difference) and a nForce2 mobo, and you got a platform that a P4 will be hard pressed to beat

and uyoull have a couple hundred extra dollars to spend on extra ram, or a better video card =D