Which is better AMD Athlon 64 or Pentium D?

[chevydriver1123]

I prefer to have a pentium on my desktop and an AMD on my laptop. Pentiums tend to have heat problems

[dauodwa]

Originally Posted by chevydriver1123

<>I prefer to have a pentium on my desktop and an AMD on my laptop. Pentiums tend to have heat problems<
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thats true. i just turn on the aircon, or by a better fan.

Originally Posted by dauodwa

im not gonna get vista. have you seen the speculation about what the system requirements will be. massive requirements. ill stick with windows xp thanks.

Well, we dont know yet, as i looked up the requirments on my website. About 512MB RAM and a modern cpu. So most P4s and athlons will be running it smoothly.

Originally Posted by dauodwa

thats true. i just turn on the aircon, or by a better fan.

sorry, i meant on a website on google search

[puppynut5]

Why Pentium in a desktop and AMD in a laptop?? AMD's except for some of the newer ones have usually ran hotter than a Pentium. While this isn't true with some of the newer dual cores it is in the past. AMD's are usually hotter because they run at a higher frequency therefore running faster but producing more heat as well. I would go with the AMD just for the simple fact that they always spec out better. An AMD running at 2.4GHZ will out perform a Pentium 4 also running at 2.4GHZ. Pentium seems to have the problem of giving something a higher rating than it can really produce.

Originally Posted by puppynut5

divWhy Pentium in a desktop and AMD in a
laptop?? AMD's except for some of the newer ones have usually ran
hotter than a Pentium. While this isn't true with some of the newer
dual cores it is in the past. AMD's are usually hotter because they run
at a higher frequency therefore running faster but producing more heat
as well. I would go with the AMD just for the simple fact that they
always spec out better. An AMD running at 2.4GHZ will out perform a
Pentium 4 also running at 2.4GHZ. Pentium seems to have the problem of
giving something a higher rating than it can really produce./div

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When i was choosing the proccesor for my new custom built computer, i
saw the price of a p4 3 GzH which was $280 and the Athlon 64 3500+
2.20Ghz ( which i bought) $320 i asked the salesman wahts the diffrence
between the 2 when the p4 had more Ghz, he said the athlon has better
performance than the p4, he told not to worry with the clock speeds.
Well its given me very good performance, iam satisfied.br