I would have to say it is gonna depend on what you plan on doing... I have an AMD athlon XP 1700+ (1.47Ghz) clocked at ~3200+ (2.26Ghz) speed and I will be soon replacing it with a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz 800mhz front side bus with hyper threading. I do alot of video encoding and the pentiums even without hyper threading they just kill the AMDs... gaming intel is also the way to go. if you are just gonna use it for surfing the we then by all means save some money buy an AMD.

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