If I had to choose between CPU's, which?

[macdad-]

well thats WAY bttr than mine  but i still would consider an upgrade on ur CPU, perhaps a Pentium D or Core 2 Dou proccesor those are top-of-the-line proccessors i highly reccommend them.

[fpsmitch]

well, it all depends on what you are going to do with the computer

[Fordtruckmaniac]

I have a DVD burner, CD burner, that are used quite a bit.

Net browsing, Google Earth, a little game playing, and I mean only a little.

[squall_01]

Considering that then I would go with the AMD

[Fordtruckmaniac]

Just for the sake of asking, not being argumentative.

Why?

[macdad-]

AMD is well known in Graphics Proccessing and since u do Google Earth u'll need an upgrade.

[patio]

AMD is well known in Graphics Proccessing and since u do Google Earth u'll need an upgrade.

This is balderdash at best... the CPU's are so close in specs i would make a financial decision at this point.

[Calum]

Which Pentium 4 CPU are you looking at getting?
If it's socket 478 remember you won't need to change your board, whereas the AMD will require a board change too.
Also, you may want to consider a graphics card if you don't currently have a dedicated one, it would help with your games and Google Earth.

[Fordtruckmaniac]

I was looking at a socket 775, 3.4GHz Prescott, SL7Z7 Pentium 4. 800MHz bus speed/2048KB L2 cache size for their bus speed and cache size improvement over my socket 478, P4, 3.06 mentioed above. I will have to purchase a 775 board though. But thats OK. The Pentium 4's seem to be easier to come up with, without having to take out a loan.

I do already have a socket 754, AMD Athlon 64, Venice core, L2 cache 512KB/ HyperTransport, with speeds up to 800 MHz
(ADA3200AIO4BX) on a Biostar board with a GB of memory on it too. This is what I was looking to go up the 1KB cache size with the ADA3400AEP5AP Clawhammer core processor.

And I have a bare PC Chips 754 board as well, they ( the Biostar and PC Chips) both will max with the AMD3700.

I do run a Nvidia FX6200 256MB VGA card on my 478 board.

[Betaa]

from personal experience i would say earlier Intel would be better than the earlier AMD.
but i would suggest going to a AMD Athlon 64 X2 2GHz or higher if you want bang for the buck and if you go AM2 socket those motherboards are rather inexpensive.

[Calum]

I think in that case that you'll see a better performance increase with the P4 than the AMD, as you're increasing the bus speed, clock speed and cache size compared to your older P4, whereas upgrading the Athlon will mean a slightly higher clock speed and a small cache increase.
775 boards are relatively inexpensive, and many will offer the upgrade path to Intel's newer CPUs too, without necessarily requiring new RAM.

[Fordtruckmaniac]

I understand, I have seen some Intel socket 775 boards that have 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz FSB.   

Thanks,