New Computer AMD 64 or Pentium 4
Looking at buying a new PC.
Can anyone offer any advice on what is best for my needs, I'm looking for a new PC that will be used for General Home use that includes Internet, usual basic office stuff, games , photo editing and hopefully in the near future video editing.
The two systems I'm looking at seem very similar to me and both work out at exactly the same price. What is the difference between the AMD 64 chip and the Pentium 4 ? Which will be faster for me ? All advice on the systems and their suitability would be appreciated (also appreciate advice on Mesh & Evesham). I've given details of the systems below. Thanks in advance.
Mesh A64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor
Mainboard 800mhz SB, GB LAN, IEEE 1394, SATA (que?)
512MB DDR RAM (PC3200) Memory
160GB ATA (150Mb/s) Hard Drive
128MB nVidia GeForce FX 5900XT, TV out/DVI
17" TFT LCD monitor (viewsonic I think !)
52x CD-RW
SONY DWU-18A-8x DVD-RW (r/w all standard formats)
Creative Labs soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
Creative Labs Inspire T7700 - 7.1 Surround Sound speakers
Microsoft Works Suite
Pinnacle Studio 9 SE Software
3 Year warrantly
Midi tower with 6 USB's
or
Evesham Blue Beast
Intel Pentium 4 3.0ghz
MSI MS-6728 865PE Mainboard
2x256mb dual channel DDR Ram (pc3200) 400mhz
120gb Hard Drive
128mb nVidia GeForce FX5900XT, TV-out, DVI-I
17" Viewsonic VP171S TFT monitor
Creative inspire P580 5.1 speakers
DVD-ROM 16x
DW-U18A 8x multi format DVD-RW
Microsoft Works