What CPU Should i buy?

[Steve Buckley]

I am looking to upgrade my PC.
I have currently a AMD 64 3800+ on a Gigabyte K8N SLI Pro motherboard and
1Gb of Geil Memory.
My question is - Would it be worth buying a AMD 64 4800x2 or go for the new
Intel Core 2 Duo ( I know i will need a new motherboard and memory )
AMD is obviously the cheapest option, but i want a PC that wont need
upgrading for a few years

Any pros and cons of both systems ?
PC used mainly for - Internet, Email, Video edting, DVD/CD burning

 

[SamuelF566]

I am looking to upgrade my PC.
I have currently a AMD 64 3800+ on a Gigabyte K8N SLI Pro motherboard and
1Gb of Geil Memory.
My question is - Would it be worth buying a AMD 64 4800x2 or go for the new
Intel Core 2 Duo ( I know i will need a new motherboard and memory )
AMD is obviously the cheapest option, but i want a PC that wont need
upgrading for a few years

Any pros and cons of both systems ?
PC used mainly for - Internet, Email, Video edting, DVD/CD burning

From What I have read, The New Pentium Core 2 Duo is the winner. Also
the most expensive. If your not looking to upgrade for a while , I
would suggest the fastest speed you can afford. I purchased a Pentium 4
2.4 ghz just in 2004 and then it was the second fastest.
In 2 short years having a regular chip not dual core is considered
slow.

 

[Unicorn]

I would go for a configuration: Vista-ready PCs ....
PCProc advised recently,
Don't hold off buying a new pc until vista is released: we test seven
vista-ready windows XP systems costing from £499 to £849
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/143/vista-ready-pcs/introduction.html

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/143/vista-ready-pcs/products.html

 

[John Doe]

I would go for a configuration: Vista-ready PCs ....
PCProc advised recently,
Don't hold off buying a new pc until vista is released:

If you enjoy donating money to Microsoft, or if you plan on
using Windows XP while the public finishes beta testing Vista.

 

[Mike T.]

I am looking to upgrade my PC.
I have currently a AMD 64 3800+ on a Gigabyte K8N SLI Pro motherboard and
1Gb of Geil Memory.
My question is - Would it be worth buying a AMD 64 4800x2 or go for the
new Intel Core 2 Duo ( I know i will need a new motherboard and memory )
AMD is obviously the cheapest option, but i want a PC that wont need
upgrading for a few years

Any pros and cons of both systems ?
PC used mainly for - Internet, Email, Video edting, DVD/CD burning

Define a few years. If 2 or more, then you need to be building ultra
high-end. Core 2 duo is the only thing to build with, at the moment,
though. It's just a matter of how much you spend on that Core 2 duo
processor. -Dave

 

[Larc]

|
| > I would go for a configuration: Vista-ready PCs ....
| > PCProc advised recently,
| > Don't hold off buying a new pc until vista is released:
|
| If you enjoy donating money to Microsoft, or if you plan on
| using Windows XP while the public finishes beta testing Vista.

As closely as I've looked at Vista, no "must have" has become evident yet. For
the first time since 3.0, I may skip a new Windows version. XP really isn't a
WinME that demands to be upgraded.

Larc



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[Steve Buckley]

If i went for the Intel i would go for a Core2Duo E6600, Asus P5W DH Deluxe
and 2gb DDR2 ram. ( this costs just over £500 from www.aria.co.uk )
Or i stay with AMD and go for the AMD 4800x2 (£224 from www.aria.co.uk)
As you can see there is a big difference in the price, is it worth spending
the extra £280 on a Intel sytem?

 

[Michael Hawes]

Define a few years. If 2 or more, then you need to be building ultra
high-end. Core 2 duo is the only thing to build with, at the moment,
though. It's just a matter of how much you spend on that Core 2 duo
processor. -Dave

What is giving a problem? It is not worth upgrading unless you will see 60%
speed increase, better is 100% improvement.
Mike.

 

[rebuildapc]

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From What I have read, The New Pentium Core 2 Duo is the winner. Also
the most expensive. If your not looking to upgrade for a while , I
would suggest the fastest speed you can afford. I purchased a Pentium
4 2.4 ghz just in 2004 and then it was the second fastest.
In 2 short years having a regular chip not dual core is considered
slow.

Why don't you save money and continue with AMD, and spend the extra bucks
on better audio and video cards, larger hard drive, more ram etc.

 

[coolsti]

I am looking to upgrade my PC.
I have currently a AMD 64 3800+ on a Gigabyte K8N SLI Pro motherboard and
1Gb of Geil Memory.
My question is - Would it be worth buying a AMD 64 4800x2 or go for the new
Intel Core 2 Duo ( I know i will need a new motherboard and memory )
AMD is obviously the cheapest option, but i want a PC that wont need
upgrading for a few years

Any pros and cons of both systems ?
PC used mainly for - Internet, Email, Video edting, DVD/CD burning

Hi,

you really made my day! I just have to grin at your post. You want to
"upgrade" your PC while I just upgraded my wife's PC to about the same PC
you are upgrading from! I just built one with an AMD64 3800+ and an Asus
8Nsli-premium board.

Its all a matter of perspective; when I decided to do our upgrade, I
preferred to go for technologies that have been around a bit so that they
are less buggy, more drivers are available, and prices are cheaper. I
looked at CPU tests on Tom's Hardware, and for the currently available PC
games that were used in the tests, the AMD64 3800+ is quite close to the
top performers, or at least close enough for me. I didn't go dual core
because in these tests, mostly for gamers, I didn't see any performance
advantage at all.

I guess video editing is your most performance-craving task, and that
definitely would benefit from a top top system. But I find it amusing that
you wish already to upgrade your PC for internet, email and DVD/CD
burning. You have a really powerful PC already, would it not be better to
wait one year before upgrading to see what comes out then?

But upgrading does sound exciting ....

 

[Dave C.]

If i went for the Intel i would go for a Core2Duo E6600, Asus P5W DH Deluxe
and 2gb DDR2 ram. ( this costs just over £500 from www.aria.co.uk )
Or i stay with AMD and go for the AMD 4800x2 (£224 from www.aria.co.uk)
As you can see there is a big difference in the price, is it worth spending
the extra £280 on a Intel sytem?

YES
!

From what I've read, even the entry level core 2 duo chip out-performs the
most expensive AMD chip, at the moment, and the difference is significant.
So I'd say buy the cheapest core 2 duo chip you can find, and the price
difference might not be that much. -Dave

 

[beachfront reality]

YES
!

From what I've read, even the entry level core 2 duo chip out-performs the
most expensive AMD chip, at the moment, and the difference is significant.
So I'd say buy the cheapest core 2 duo chip you can find, and the price
difference might not be that much. -Dave

Actually the amd hangs in there in raw computing power (number
crunching). It's the bullshit benchmarks and media encoding that
Intel designed it's cpu's for. Memory prefetch ? Give me a break.
What do you think that's for ? Benchmarks and encoding. whoopdedo.