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is the intel pentium 4 with ht better or is amd athalon 64

Jul 4, 2005 3:47PM PDT

can anyone tell me which is better, the amd athlon 64 or is the intel pentium 4 iwth hyper threading technology better, both compaq and hp have both. please help

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athlon 64
Jul 4, 2005 3:50PM PDT

amd is faster for gaming. but if u do like video and stuff, intel is a little faster but amd beats it in almost everything.

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athlon 64
Jul 4, 2005 4:21PM PDT

all i do is play on games.com and i would ike to burn dvd and cd's. then why is the amd athlon 64 run at 2.4 and intel run at 3.0 thank you for your help

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so what is really the difference
Jul 4, 2005 4:24PM PDT

im not sure what really is the difference between the amd 64 and the intel pentiums

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which is better
Jul 4, 2005 4:33PM PDT

im not sure which of these computers are better?
one is a compaq amd athlon643000+ 2.4 160 gb 7200 rpm double layer 16 dvd r/rw 512 mb pc3200 ddrsdran the other is
hp intel pentium 4 630ht 3.0
800 mhz sb,l2 cache 2x512
200gb7200 serial ata
light scribe double layer 16xdvd r/rw

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A new CPU.
Jul 4, 2005 9:24PM PDT

Intel's P4 can have 64-bit now which levels out this playing field. Look for EM64T and you'll enjoy either 64-bit machine for many years.

Bob

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AMD for now, but what do you want
Jul 4, 2005 10:36PM PDT

Look at it this way:
Intel HT - 32 strong capable workers doing a task
AMD - 64 workers doing the same task

Up to you. 64bit simply is better at doing tasks, plus you can improve on it and have even more capabilities as time goes by. Meaning, as any cpu before it, gets improved upon. Plys 64bit is the wave of the future and so far has proved capable.

happy USA -----Willy Happy

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(NT) (NT) go amd unless you multitask, then go intel
Jul 5, 2005 1:32AM PDT