Hey all.. I'm looking at updating my 1.1ghz Athlon homebuilt machine.
I've pieced together two wishlists at Newegg (I LOVE Newegg) and an Intel 2.5Ghz Wolfdale will run me just under $300 with the CPU, board, RAM, 160gb HDD and a new PFC/80+ Bronze 330w power supply shipped to my door.
A Quad core AMD 1.8ghz with 1066 DDR2 upgrade will cost about $340 shipped along with the same hdd and PS.
Which one would you spend the $$ on and why?
I'm not really loyal to any certain CPU manufacturer, but I do know that back in the day, AMD had a slight performance advantage over the Intel systems... just not sure if that is still true!
I've pieced together two wishlists at Newegg (I LOVE Newegg) and an Intel 2.5Ghz Wolfdale will run me just under $300 with the CPU, board, RAM, 160gb HDD and a new PFC/80+ Bronze 330w power supply shipped to my door.
A Quad core AMD 1.8ghz with 1066 DDR2 upgrade will cost about $340 shipped along with the same hdd and PS.
Which one would you spend the $$ on and why?
I'm not really loyal to any certain CPU manufacturer, but I do know that back in the day, AMD had a slight performance advantage over the Intel systems... just not sure if that is still true!