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Originally posted by accord 4 me
he wants a cheap pc and you tell him not to get amd because it "ONLY" supports 3 gb of ram? and have you never seen liquid nitrogen used on a athlon or what? i dont know what youre trying to say here, sure a p4 will clock a lot higher then the athlon, but as we all know clock speed isn't everything. as for 64 bit ahead of its time? there's been like 10 different linux operating systems out since day one. windows xp 64 bit is in beta form and will be out by years end. along with at least 5 games i can think of right now. and thats just what's been announced. i'm not sure why everyone is afraid to get this 64 bit chip. just because its 64 bit doesn't mean you HAVE to run 64 bit operating systems and programs on it. it does 32 bit better then any chip out right now. it'd be dumb to get any other chip
anyways, for 30 bucks more then the p4 2.8 you can get the athlon 64 3000 which will just kill that 2.8.
but i'd say this is a really bad time to buy a computer. with pci express video cards, btx form factor and 64 bit chips. you're gonna get left behind if you buy a p4 2.8. i'd wait till at least june then re-evaluate it all.
*edit: almost forgot, why do you have an nvidia card listed? lol radeon 9800 xt > *
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Please do not start assuming things, i just layed out the differences, i did not say to go ahead and buy a p4 over an amd. I told him if he wants a gaming pc to go buy an AMD processor. Yeah i guess if you want a cheaper machine you can also go with AMD.
And about linux, he isn't going to be using linux so please you know better then to mention something that is not going to be used. And Windows XP will only have a beta of 64 they announced they will not release a full 64 OS until Longhorn, and now apparently with what hawkster said not until so called Windows XP Reloaded, they are doing this to force the sales of their next OS.