Need some Athlon 64 vs Pentium 4 research!

[grs]

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.

[Gopal]

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.

[hatembr]

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).

[F5D]

athlon64

[Smag]

Athlon AMD

[saba]

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

Up to you.
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[F5D]

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

[grs]

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.

[hatembr]

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