Shoper Advise

[adham_a]

Hello all,
I am thinking of buying a new Pentium 4 system mainly for games but the thing is that i am hesistating to pay around 600$ for a system that may become totaly obsolute in 2 or 3 months or become worth like 200 $ in the same period !!!!
The main point is that is it worth to buy a new P4 now despite all this news about the 64 bit processors.

Thank you

 

[peartree]

This question really belongs in the CPU forum or one of the others, but it's quicker to answer here, I guess.

No, you'll not need to worry about buying a 64-bit Pentium any time soon. There already IS a 64-bit Pentium. It's called the Itanium. It's been around for over a year, but no-one is buying them for desktop use. The price alone is more than you want to pay for a system.

Go out and buy a P4 that has Hyperthreading and a motherboard that supports it (be careful on that one-some claim to but lie-ask in the Motherboard and Chipset forum). Or, buy a complete system and let the manufacturer worry about it. I think you can buy a Dell for about that much.

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