AMD 64 3800, or P4 3.6ghz

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Originally Posted by CREDO When yor talking that kind of grunt on either platform, Price of both the CPU and the motherboard would be the main deciding factor for me. Remebering that; AMD 64 3800 runs at 2.4 mhz with a 512kb L2 cashe Intel P4 3.6 runs at 3.6 mhz with 1mb L2 Cashe If it were me, and I had the cash, i would go for the P4 every time.

That's true in terms of hard numbers. But the AMD is going to be running .2 over the P4 by Intel's Mhz. Although it does have 512kb cashe over the AMD.

What are you planning on doing with the computer?