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Originally posted by rivalen
the adm chip has many other new features besides 64bit support...this is why you see the improvements accross the board...the 64 bit support isn't really important for typical computer use right now...
most benchmarks place the amd at the top due to these improvements...but intel's hyper threading technology is also very alluring...I chose intel for this reason...huge performance increases when running multiple applications simultaneously...something most benchmarks don't test...something gaming geeks and everyone else who really uses the chips to their full potential don't care as much about either. Running virtual servers on a single machine ( in my case), it's proven beneficial...
I can't imagine anyone really being able to discern the difference bw two similar amd and p4 equipped systems under typical use. I would say if you are looking for the absolute fastet chip under typical use, it's the amd...if you run multiple processor intensive applications simultaneoulsy, go for the intel.
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well these tests show that for encoding (not even multi tasking)
that the P4 is faster!
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003...-guide-17.html