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Originally Posted by Aurora I would personally go with AMD over celeron because its upgradable. The celeron comes as a set with the motherboard - might as well buy a whole new computer. |
Incorrect, a celeron processor can be upgraded just like any other intel processor or amd.
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Originally Posted by Big_Lad_R3UDE My personal preference would be to go with the P4, as this is actually the fastest processor (AMD's tend not to run as fast as their spec) however, the AMD is 64 bit and will therefore take advantage of multi threading if you have a tendancy to use any CPU intensive applications designed for this (such as photoshop!). There are many applications that will be being designed for 64 bit CPU's and therefore its a good choice (also gaming will be designed for 64bit very soon). Only certain P4's have the 64 bit capability...
Oh and windows will be 64 bit compliant very soon! So go with the AMD...
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I would say get the AMD, to me there is no competition, the celeron should be out already, they are a poor performing processor. Either of those AMD processors will outperform the 3.0 p4.
If it were my decision I would save a few bucks and get the AMD 3200 I haven't looked in awhile but I think the price difference between the 3200 XP and 64 bit is pretty small so I personally would go 64 bit.