AMD or Intel

 >Hold off for a while and get one of the AMD64's when prices come down a bit,
 >the OS are more widely available, and designs stabilise (ha!).

Or hold off awhile for AMD to change their socket design, and for
Intel to go BGA in the middle of this year?

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on Sat January 10 2004 4:47 pm, alans220 decided to enlighten us with:

 > Hi,
 >
 > Just about to upgrade my PC system.
 >
 > Always had AMD in the past, but thought about trying the 8KNXP board
 > with a 2.6 processor.
 >
 > Most of what I have read lately points to the AMD processor for value
 > and performance.
 >
 > I'm mainly working on Video, DVD and photo processing.
 >
 > Any Ideas?

Yeah, play the waiting game. Wait until the 64 bit version of Windows ships
later this year and the new boards based on the new socket for Prescott are
released. Then, check out the online reviews, most notably Tom's Hardware,
and see what happens. AMD64 is in its infancy and the 64 bit Windows is
going to make all the difference in the world. Also, Prescott will ship
with 64 bit extensions, but won't be enabled until the Grantsdale boards
ship with the new socket. However, if you plan to use Intel chipset boards,
be aware that they're ditching the AGP slot in favor of PCI Express.
Therefore, if you plan to keep your existing video card, either look at
something from VIA or SiS, or go AMD.

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alans220 <alans220.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:vgs000de3p79anbqnfhla8aomruad75e8i@4ax.com:

 > Hi,
 >
 > Just about to upgrade my PC system.
 >
 > Always had AMD in the past, but thought about trying the 8KNXP board
 > with a 2.6 processor.
 >
 > Most of what I have read lately points to the AMD processor for value
 > and performance.
 >
 > I'm mainly working on Video, DVD and photo processing.
 >
 > Any Ideas?
 >
 > thanks
 >
 > al

Just did the same deliberation and decided for the P4. Reason is what I
want to do. The AMD can't touch the P4 when it comes to video encoding as
in DivX if you have you have one of the processors with 800 MHz FSB and
dual ported memory.

It seems that regards the multimedia stuff the P4 has the edge al least
that it what all the shoot outs of AMD 64 verses P4 3.2 have indicated.
Also people in the doom9.net forums have commented on the speed of DivX
encoding of the P4 versus the AMD.

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