athlon XP 2200+ or P4 2.8Ghz? which is which

[oneheart]

well, i just want to ask some help before i purchase a new PC.... i try to canvas for P4 2.4 Ghz and AMD Athlon XP 2500+.... im a little bit confused which processor i choose...i guess both of them are good..but i need advice from you guys....which is the best of the best for the use of capturing and editing video... coz say that P4 is good and other say that ATHLON is good also....which do you think is the best for editing and cpturing?

below is the specs. that i have here...both P4 and AMD Athlon

ATHLON:

AMD ATHLON XP 2500+
AERO 7+ COOLER MASTER
ASUS A7V8X-X
512MB DDR 400
120GB 7200 RPM BARRACUDA
GEFORCE 4 128MB MX440

INTEL P4:

INTEL P4 2.4 Ghz (HT)
ASUS P4P-EX MOTHERBOARD
128 GFORCE 4 ANNO3D WITH VGA CARD
80GB BARRACUDA
512MB DDR

this are just part specs i have....
im expecting for your responds...

oneheart \0/

[808smokey]

Softsandra (benchmark program) says that AMD is faster/better performance than the Intel. Even the AMD 2000+ is faster than that Intel chip. I'd get the AMD

[Wetmonkey]

AMD all the way more bang for your buck and ya can keep some of my lame a$$ intel design engineers buds from meeting their bonus quota lol

[Drewness]

go AMD...u can OC the chip up to round 2.4 probly too...

[Faustus]

Either is fine, but if you are doing video and the P4 is one of the 800mhz FSB ones I would lean that way. Assuming the extra cost isn't more then you would want to pay for the small speed boost it would provide. FSB = the good.

[SquirrelDip]

I agree with flaystus, both are good choices but go with the Intel. Reason is the 800 FSB and Hyperthreading - both will help cut your encoding times...

[coldfire8]

i have a 3.0 GHz Intel 4 with HT (800mhz FSB), and i can tell you that i don't know anybody with an AMD that can do tasks (i.e video processing) faster than i can. that said, i would prob recommend getting an AMD if you are building your own PC, since you can spend the extra money on RAM or whatever, but i got sick and tired off putting mismatched parts together on my previous systems. i spent some extra cash and got a beast from Dell.

oh yeah, i should mention that spending the extra money on something like RAM is a sound investment, but you have to look at what you will be doing most of the time. upgrading my memory from 512 to 1gb gave me a noticable improvment in things like encoding video. not much improvment in other things though, such as video games. at least not worth the $200+