Which is better: AMD Athlon XP 1800+ or Intel Pentium 2 GHz?

[Timberwolf]

Hi there

I'm creating a new PC - I'd like to find out which
CPU will give better performance in a PC used for
digital video editing:

An AMD Athlon XP 1800+ or an Intel Pentium 2GHz?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Gary Hendricks
http://www.desktop-video-guide.com

 

[JK]

Hyperthreading might not help performance much, and at times
might even decrease performance.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107492,00.asp

 

[bogustxtburnetga]

Hi there

I'm creating a new PC - I'd like to find out which
CPU will give better performance in a PC used for
digital video editing:

An AMD Athlon XP 1800+ or an Intel Pentium 2GHz?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Gary Hendricks
http://www.desktop-video-guide.com

For video editing consider the XP2600+ or P4 2.4C processors.

Greg B.

 

[JAD]

sucks when Stacey's right, cause he has to be so arrogant about it....bottom line unless your doing 3D rendering(OP) then a midrange
vid card with 64 meg(128) ram would do fine.....CAD, arc Drawing .... well then maybe a fireGL, most cards that are talked about the
most are the gaming cards.....but when your doing more than that on your machine.... well they don't measure up money wise.

I use a ATI 7500 AIW in one machine,,,118$US and I can do just about anything with it(video editing/producing

 

[Stacey]

sucks when Stacey's right, cause he has to be so arrogant about
it....

When they went into that long speal about:

"It is
also about how much of the burden is taken over by the well performance of a
video card."

I couldn't resist. Also "pccomputerdr"? They =should= know better. And I'm
not the one who was doing the name calling!