AMD or Pentium

[who_cares]

usually just Bust Buy, They have a store really close to me

[capatuy]

AMD ROCKS!!!

[the_dan]

Eh? Where are you buying, your local Dell outlet?

I love Dell. Other companies make do with glueing the components in so you can't upgrade. Dell just go for using a customised version of the ATX power supplies, so any upgrades result in a nice fireworks display, an entirely non working computer, and an invalid warrenty.
I don't buy Dell.

[Viperal2]

AMD AMD AMD AMD.

Right now I'll say your best choose is an AMD64. I have my good old P4HT 3G, don't think i'll upgrade for another year.

AMD 64

P.S. And Intel HT has a vulnerability.

http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreadi ... d-harmful/" target="_blank
but that is a problem of servers

Ubuntu Linux: Since it is not possible to provide a safe patch in a short time, HyperThreading has been disabled in the updated kernel packages for now. You can manually enable HyperThreading again by passing the kernel parameter "ht=on" at boot. [Quoted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-131-1.]

Atleast, now I know it disabled

[Teddy B.]

...and GOD no ONE make the same mistake as me and get a celeron NO LAUGHING DAMMIT

Unless you mean a Celeron M. The Celeron M used in many notebooks is actually based on the same core as the Pentium M. And the P-M has been proven in many cases to have better performance than the Pentium 4.

[Roberdin]

Not to mention miles of overclock-ability.

[stubbers]

Quote:...and GOD no ONE make the same mistake as me and get a celeron NO LAUGHING DAMMIT

Unless you mean a Celeron M. The Celeron M used in many notebooks is actually based on the same core as the Pentium M. And the P-M has been proven in many cases to have better performance than the Pentium 4.

Yes, celeron m is nice, but, I got a normal celeron... In a good old HP Pavilion 544a, some day I AM going to put this machine out of it's misery...

However it does have a brand NEW kick arse LG dvd burner in it

[Skuld]

Can't say, the last time I use AMD was nearly 6 years ago, they've improved quite a bit since then I bet

All my PCs are using Pentium 4's and laptop has M or something *forgets*

[Techboy]

AMD.

They perform better in servers, I found. Last time I used a server with a pentium processor it took like 40 seconds to load a PHP page.

[theamazingTWOeyedman]

40 seconds? how long did the amd cpu take with the same script?