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Advice on New System

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cditty

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Please guys, give me your honest opinion. I posted here in the Intel forum, because it is what I have been using. I know many of you have experience with both processors, so help me out.

I have a dilema and was hoping you could maybe you guys could help me with. I have been planning to do an upgrade. Before my marriage, I upgraded every few months. Now, I try to make them last a little longer. I have parted out my system and have around a 1,200 dollar budget. I was leaning heavily to the AMD side for it's performance and low heat, although I have been using P4's since my 1.4 Athlon. (Many years now) Here's the problem. In reading many reviews, numerous comments have been made about the A64 not being a very smooth multitasker. I have used hyperthreading ever since it's release and have grown a little accustomed to it. I will be doing some gaming as well. My choices are build an LGA775 P4 system with PCI-Express and DDR2 or a S939 A64 with PCI-Express & SLI to add another card at a later date. In your opinion, how big is the difference w/o hyperthreading at the current CPU speeds? Also, I am under the impression that Dual Core on the AMD side will work on existing Nforce 4 boards. Do you think that will pan out? As that would be a good future upgrade which would probably be smoother than hyperthreading anyway. It seems as if I build a P4, dual core will not happen w/o a new motherboard, so my investment would not last as long.

Thanks guys for reading my post.

Chris
 
Running the system in my sig, it doesn't handle multitasking nearly as well as a P4 with HT. I run programs such as After Effects, Premiere, 3dsmax, etc.. and they all benefit from HT.

In fact, once the new dual core Intels come out, I'll be building on of those strictly for work and the sig system will be for gaming.

IMO, I'd go with whatever you want, but I think the Intel will be a better muli-tasker. It will run games just fine as well.
 
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