Need some Athlon 64 vs Pentium 4 research!
 

If anyone can post their thoughts on which path I should take that would be nice, also if you have websites that show these two in comparitive tests etc.

What I'm after is a mobo with G-lan and a CPU that kicks for audio.

If you want to overclock, go with the Athlon.

If you want bulletproof reliability, go with the Pentium.

This is what I have learned from a close friend that owns his own computer business. Hope it helps.

go for the Athlon and save your money :)
as far as performance go, they are almost identical to the end user, and the athlon is in some cases faster (depending on which p4 u compare it to of course).

athlon64

Athlon AMD

The athlons are cheaper and a little quicker, but the Intel chipsets have bullet proof reliability.

Up to you.
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Athlon64 is at least as reliable as any intel. A64 is also faster.

Thanks people for that. I think I'll hunt down an Athlon 64 3200+ with the Socket 939. Dont know what is better from the Socket 734, I think there is more cache at L1 or L2, not sure. There is a windows XP 64bit version floating around for testing, it sounds interesting. Although drivers for soundcards and things might take longer, plus a 64bit DAW.

yes but u don't have to worry about that, 32bits appz should work fine in a 64bits environment, but they won't take advantage of it