Poll: Athlon or P4!!!!

[BOOKERREESE]

plan on building a new system 4 gaming & Cad type projects. which 1 should i use!!!

 

[Biggs]

Did you know that only a mere 13% of rigs here have Intel inside?

 

[Rand]

I vote Athlon.

 

[jkersenbr]

Another vote for Athlon. The P4 is just too expensive.

But the information Biggs added is "just a bit" inaccurate.

AT System Rigs Statistics

43% AMD
56% Intel
1% other

 

[CrazyRaider]

Athlon (Thunderbird)

 

[AMDfreak]

Athlon all the way. Hold out for a good DDR board and an Athlon will own any PU-4.

 

[Compuguru]

Athlon!

Of course wait for Palomino and DDR first.

 

[mitaiwan82]

Athlon...unless you have some SSE2 mega-P4-enhanced CAD program....

 

[Dark4ng3l]

athlon

 

[Spoooon]

If I had unlimited money, I would get a P4. Not necessarily because it's better or anything, but the layman would think you were so much cooler.

 

[DARRIN]

Athlon. Of course!

 

[cookj]

Athlon

 

[smp]

A store here in my hood has the 1.2 @ 266 fsb out now.. (finally)
athlon

 

[DARRIN]

The only thing that would beat a T'bird is Dual T'birds. Now that would be sweet!

 

[hclarkjr]

thunderbird/athlon

 

[twong82]

Athlon Tbird, No doubt!!

 

[shiznut123]

Athlon!!! I have an intel sys though

 

[hito]

I just love my t-bird. T-bird all the way!

- hito

 

[Dazmite]

I vote Athlon Too, especially because I am a new P4 sucker. P4s RC5 ratings are 1/2 of my old Athlon. All in all this P4 has absolutly nothing over the Athlon at this time. Price wise I didn't think it was to bad Dell has a few good deals. I needed all new hardware anyways. So I opted for this P4.
ps. I also just ordered the parts to get my old Athy back up and running
Paul

 

[cdternie]

Same answer a lot of people have in mind:

Limited cash: Athlon
unlimited: P4!

 

[birddog]

at the moment I'd have to say Athalon. My vote may change when VIA comes out with their DDR chipset for the P4. I like Intel CPU's, but I will not help out their Rambus stock option deal by buying any chipset that they produce that uses Rambus.

 

[VidmanII]

Limited funds: Duron
Unlimted funds: Athlon

Only advantage(?) is the P4's memory bandwidth but the latency is so slow ( RAMBUS ) that I'm not even sure that even that is an advantage. Aside from the odd SSE2 optimized prog, the Athlons 1 gig and up SMOKE even the P4 1.5's...Intel inside is a warning label these days.

 

[Alakazam]

Athlon T-Bird DDR
No question about price/performance

 

[han888]

dual intel if u have enough budget

 

[Punamo]

Athlon with DDR RAM.

After dreaming for about 4 years it's about time I retire my P1 233MMX (yes it still exists!).