Was just wondering if it is worth upgrading my older P4 system to a Extreme Edition chip.......so its not a matter of whether AMD is better or not its a matter of whether people think its worth the $300 for the P4EE....
Would be running the system on Water cooling
I would say buy the water cooling (if you don´t already have one) and a new CPU.
I recommend:
If you don´t play games 60% of the time infront of the computer, then buy the Intel Pentium D 920, Dual-cores @ 2,8GHz and 4Mb cache.
If you play a lot of games, then go for AMD64 3700+ San Diego or if you have a little more money the AMD64 X2 3800+.
Yes the AMD:s are faster in games, but if you don´t have an AMD64 X2 and you are going from an Intel P4 Hyper-Threading processor, then you´ll some parts go slower than they did before...
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Don´t attack me now AMD and Intel fans, because I have them both...
I got a AMD64 3700+ and a P4 530 that is running at 3,82GHz.