Should I get AMD or Intel?

[petemyster]

what processor should i get for this PC? I want a quad core, but i don't know which to get AMD or Intel.

Corsair 4Gb DHX XMS2 (2x2Gb)

Sapphire ATI HD4870 X2 2048MB DDR5 x16 CrossFire Dual DVI

Samsung 1TB 7200rpm S-ATAII 32MB Hard Drive
Liteon DH-20A1S-18-C 20x Black SATA + - DVDRW (X2)

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI - Express OEM Sound Card

Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 Skt775 DDR2 PCI-E 16x FSB1600

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 32-Bit Edition OEM

Thermal Take W0117RB 750W ToughPower PSU

Cooler Master Cavalier 3 T03 A Aluminium Black ATX Case


I want a quad core running at 3.00Ghz. Though is Intel worth the price? Or would AMD perform on par with Intel? I want this processor to last me as long as possible without an upgrade or overclocking, so as anyone got any reccommendations?

Also, I can change the motherboard if that causes any trouble. Thanks in advance

 

[MooMoo444]

Best option for a Quad at 3GHz is a Q6600 overclocked to 3.0. Though as you said you want one without overclocking.. maybe AMD would be the right choice for you

 

[tatts]

Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 Skt775 DDR2 PCI-E 16x FSB1600

That board only supports intel skt775 anyway

 

[jrwagh333]

AMD's new Deneb Quad Cores are going to be coming out at 2.8GHz & 3.0Ghz and they will be AM2+ socket. They may come out at the end of 2008 if im not mistaken? If not Q1 2009.

 

[Meeeellar]

the Deneb's come out in early january... and they were looking pretty good as far as the engineering samples were concerned.. however some of the higher oc's were faked/very inconsistent

 

[PaulyD]

I would definately go the Intel route.

Also change to 64bit OS for 4gb support

 

[petemyster]

I would definately go the Intel route.

Also change to 64bit OS for 4gb support

i was under the impression that 32-bit Ultimate allowed 4gb.

And if it didn't, i've heard of imcompatibility issues with 64-bit.

 

[Pneumonic]

32-bit will address 4gb of RAM in total.. so this includes for example video card memory

 

[Tetras]

As said above any 32-bit OS (doesn't matter which) will address up to 4GB of RAM, there are ways around it but for desktop purposes 64-bit is the sensible choice.

Unless you use obscure software/hardware then you will have no compatibility issues, 64-bit supports 32-bit software (but will need 64-bit drivers for hardware and these are available in 99% of cases with stuff released in the last few years).