So, INTEL FSB > AMD?

If say, you have a high speed DDR-RAM or DDR2, would you benefit more from buying a Pentium 4 or an Athlon 64? At least, with a pentium 4, your FSB is higher(unless dual proc fixed this issue for Athlon 64), and your performance may theoretically be superior to Athlon 64 due to faster ram. Athlon 64 may not be able to exploit your high speed ram because of its smaller FSB.

While I'm out of the hardware loop, I thought most people agreed that AMD's memory architecture was quite superior to the P4's. Perhaps this only applies for SMP systems.

Hell, even Intel is ditching Netburst.

AMD > pwns all

I'm out of the hardware loop too, it used to be worth the time but I haven't had the need to update my processor in 3 years, software has slowed down compared to hardware and you don't rly need that much if you don't install shit.

Next time I need to buy a new processor/mobo/RAM, I'll just fly to Tom's Hardware and do what they say. They're serious guys from the Internet, and I trust them entirely. (In fact, I love how they'll go and say technology X is a waste of money; no magazine will ever be as sincere as they live from vendors, while Tom's Hardware doesn't.)

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Yes, but, some of the fuctions that were on the motherboard have been put into the AMD 64 Bit CPU. Thus making for less latancy. And as soon as 64 bit goes mainstream, you'll find that the 64 bit processors are incredibly fast.

I have the 64 bit version of Windows, and everything is alot faster and smoother.

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I hope you don't play Sony BMG CDs on that machine!  OH SHI-

Hahaha, because DDR2 really is faster...

It isn't.  Currently the latencies are too high, and since ddr2 works four times per clock those latencies count for more than on DDR.  Wait one clock cycle and you lose four operations.  Intel is famous for forcing immature technology onto the market.  About the time AMD goes to socket M2, DDR2 will finally eclipse DDR.

Additionally, the FSB issue is patently false.  Since the creation of the Athlon64, HTT has been at least as fast as Intel's quad pumped 200fsb.  Nowadays, A64s run with a 5x multiplied FSB, so 1ghz, in both directions simultaneously.  Intel's fsb is not full duplex.  Currently AMD's HTT is fast enough to cope with dual channel DDR2 at full speed, in the theoretical world of zero latency.  AMD will maintain it's lead over Netburst by virtue of scalable HTT and on-die memory controller.

64-bits has nothing to do with anything at this point.