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Hey everyone, I'm ready to buy a new puter. I've heard many different side to weather I go with the New Pentiun 4, 1.5ghz Or the AMD Athlon 1.2ghz,?? Please give some help http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

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Hey lightning, From what I have heard, anything above 1 gig is unstable so far.... Well, at least it was a month or two ago... Even the 1 gig is a little sketchy... I'd say wait a little bit more... but then again, I am conservative...

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both are good but i heard the athlon is better

Athlon is better but I think you should 2 or 3 months ...

From what I've heard the Athlon 1.2 Ghz is faster at business apps than the P4's. The only thing I can remember the P4's being ahead on significantly was Quake 3. But the P4 architecture is designed for the future, so higher clock speeds will be coming soon, and apps will be written to take advantage of the new bandwidth available. Of course, none of that does you any good right now, so a high end Athlon or P3 is probably a more economical choice for now.

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This is all good info...But man i'm still totally confussed...hehehe

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Ok,

I'm not gonna talk about pentiums or anything like that but WHATEVER you do, don't buy Dell...they're great when they work but if anything goes wrong expect to spend 8 hour days on the phone with them for 2-3 weeks trying to fix it before they authorize you a replacement system, then about 1-2 weeks for a new one to show up...

How do I know this? I just went through the nightmare...went and bought another gateway and was on my doorstep in under 72 hours...

That's my 2 cents....ciao

If you want a real technical explanation, then check out this bit from anandtech.com, which is a fairly reputable hardware benchmarking / review site. (He's been on Tech TV before, if that means anything to you.)
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=1360

Here's his summary from the bottom of that article:

"For today's buyer, the Pentium 4 simply doesn't make sense. It's slower than the competition in just about every area, it's more expensive, it's using an interface that won't be the flagship interface in 6 - 9 months and it requires a considerable investment outside of the price of the CPU itself. Remember that you have to buy a new motherboard, new memory (if you don't get it bundled with a boxed CPU), and a new power supply/case. This is the investment that must be made in order to have a CPU that can't outperform any of today's top performers with the promise that tomorrow's Pentium 4 will be better.

Our recommendation to you? Wait until the Pentium 4 turns out to be a bit more, SSE2 support is still in its infant stages, the i850 platform is doomed because of its exclusive RDRAM support, the Socket-423 interface will go away pretty soon and the performance just isn't there. Intel does have the potential to make the Pentium 4 a success, for the reasons we just mentioned and discussed further in the article, however it's far from a success today."

I seem to recall tomshardware.com coming to the same conclusion. If you want actual vendor recommendations, then mail order companies like Alienware and Falcon Northwest come highly rated and tend to use the best parts, as they're geared for gaming. But then again, Dell comes highly rated too, so I guess it just goes to show that every once in a while you'll get a lemon no matter what brand you buy.

I have been eaten. ;)