cpu's
 

got a choice, athlon 64 4000+ or intel dual core 1.83ghz.

advantages of both and opinions please need some help..lol

what are you planning on using the system for?

AMD all the way, why ? Because My Athlon XP 3200 64 bit processor running at 2.2 ghz pisses all over my work machines Pentium 4 2.8 ghz machine.

Work machine has 2 gig of ram in it, when running outlook, winamp, telnet, and then i open adobe photoshop or something, it max's the cpu right out, and my music starts stuttering.

I have my home machine here at work, got Outlook Express running downloading home e-mail, winamp, telnet, Outlook, MSN, Firefox and i'm backing up my mp3's, not a stutter on the tunes at all :top:

AMD, every time......pretty much for the same reasons as above.

:content: :top:

Im another AMD man aswell :top:

me too :)

:top:

cool, thought i may come away from AMD as the last one went tits up, its in the laptop im buying so will get the 4000+!!

:top:

I have been an AMD through my PC owner ship.

Been using P4. Currently got a 3.0GHZ and its pants. As above video editing max's out CPU. Give it to much to do and it stutters.

I would definatly go AMD again.

my old celeron 2.6GHZ one gig ram would stutter when i was on msn, firefox, and listening to music and playing a game on the web(just a java type one) and the game would stutter.

i can do all of the above plus more on this and it doesnt flinch :top:

is 1gb of ram enough to keep things running smooth, i know some programs like photoshop are draining but generaly speaking?

thing is getting a decent desktop replacment laptop and decent money isnt easy but found one just have to compromise on the graphics card :(

1gb should be fine!

I am a AMD man - best chips by far!

I have a 1gig athlon, and this laptop thats a 1.5 celeron (closest speeds i have) and the athlon laughs at this - this is a slow machine!

1gb and a shit processor will NOT be fine, trust me i should know from my old machine! :cry:

Edited to say, fine for normal use, but i wanted more performance and was never gunna get it from a 2.6GHZ celeron

My Sony Vaio laptop which is about 4 years old has an Amd Athlon 1.4 ghz cpu on it, only got 256 meg's of ram in it, but it out perform's my boss's intel celery 2 ghz easily :cry: :cry: :cry:

:cry: :top:

its unfair to compare different processor architecture as each has a virtue the most important question must be what are your requirements from a PC and do you intend to run 63 bit applications in the future.

My Linux boxes are AMD64 some running 64 bit Linux and others such as my laptop do not, My Windows Boxes are by large Intel based and there are specific performance and value reasons for this.