AMD Athlon 64 3700+ vs. Intel Pentium 4 630

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MCanavan6

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I'm going to be buying a new computer soon and cannot decide between these two. I don't know anything about AMD, but I know a little about Intel. My PC would be used mostly for internet, messaging, and basic applications. I will not be playing many games on here. I'm leaning towards the AMD just because it is about $200 cheaper.
 
If you want those 2 chips, i'd go with the AMD. But you can get by with a Sempron for less than $100.
 
"Here, too, there's not much to get excited about. In five of seven tests run, the Athlon 64 3200+ beat the Pentium 4 630, oftentimes by a healthy margin. In the Blobby Dancer and POVRay Landscape tests, the 630 came through with some very strong wins, topping even the Athlon 64 3800+, in one case leading the reviewing to suspect a flaw in the benchmark. Glimmer of hope? We'll have to wait and see. Gaming wise, the 630 was trounced by the Athlon 64s, as we've come to expect as of late."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050202-4573.html

Only review I could find :(

I'd say go with what you can afford, only spend more if you know you can take advantage of it. For the $200 price difference, get the AMD 3700+. It really has power, and if you ever do decide to get into alot of gaming, has potential to still be better than the Intel.
 
liquidshadow said:
What do you mean? Are you adding on to a computer or buying a prebuilt?
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I'm buying a prebuild because my current computer is horrible and I don't have enough money to build one.
 
4W4K3 said:
What exactly are you getting? A modest gaming machine can be had for $800 or so.
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I don't need a gaming computer. I need a fast multi-tasking computer for school work, talking to friends, downloading everything, playing music. What would you recommend?
 
Well, tell us the specs of what you would be getting, so we can see if its really better for you to buy. Whats your buget also.
 
MCanavan6 said:
I don't need a gaming computer. I need a fast multi-tasking computer for school work, talking to friends, downloading everything, playing music. What would you recommend?
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For what you have listed, $1000 is way overkill. You could get by with a system like mine for that kind of stuff, easily ~$500.

I torrent, do homework, chat, surf the web, watch DVD's, game, run photo editing and flash animation software etc. all fine with my machine. Since you aren't worried about gaming, you don't even need a powerful GFX card.
 
If you don't plan on overclocking or gaming, thats a good deal I think. Certainly faster than you need, but that's never usually a complaint I hear lol. Much more performance than a $500 S462 machine, or even a Sempron, but only a tad more in price.

If you decide you want to game more, you can jsut grab a video card (assuming AGP is compatible with that machine and it's still available by then) and slap it in.
 
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