Originally Posted by Spud1
It depends on what you want to do and what you can afford.
I was always in the AMD camp previously, but now i have my shiny new P4..would never go back. The performance difference between and intel and amd chip that are both rated the same is very marginal, maybe 1 or 2 fps in a game...thats nothing. For video editiing the P4 has always been the champion tho, i cant remember the reason (need to read up on chip architechture again) but i *think* its something to do with the floating point units or something, bleh i'm sure someone knows or can be arsed to check.
Other ppl say that A64's are better cos they are 64bit..ok fair enough but are you really going to use those extra 32bits? Theres virtually no windows software that supports 64bit, very limited driver support, and windows 64bit has only JUSt been released. Its different if your a linux user or are building a server :) but for most ppl they will make no difference.
So generally I would say go for the best you can afford, personally i would favour P4's but thats mainly because I am gaming less and less these days..plus i dont want my cpu to melt when it overheats :P AMD chips are prone to that