Pentium vs. Athlon?

if i were to get a new cpu. would you guys recommend gettin a pentium or an athlon. i dont know how to tell the difference in which is better

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Alright. Right now if you are going with the most current processors on the market, I would buy an AMD Athlon 64 dual core processor. Something like this. Everything really depends on your price range though, but no matter what I would buy an AMD processor as of right now.

Tell us more of what you want and then we will be able to give you a better recommendation. Also if you check out some benchmarks at Tom's Hardware that will give you some idea of the differences between AMD and Intel processors.

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here's a simple breakdown.

if you are a gamer, the athlon should do you better.

if you are more of a 3d rendering or video editing person, pentium is what you are looking for.

i do a little of both (gaming and video editing/photoshop) and i just went with the AMD simply because i preffer it. its really not that big of a difference but you will see small differences between the two. its mostly prefference. i recommend getting an Athlon64 since there doesn't appear to be an 64bit pentium at the moment.

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oo ok thanks that helps much more. hahs. i was wonderin before, whats the difference?!

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There's a lot of differences. The architecture, they way commands are excecuted, pipelines, etc. You should really do some research on the two processors you want to puchase. It's very interesting.

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well in technical terms, yea big difference. but if you were to just use it as a "normal" computer user that knows nothing of how a processor works. then they are pretty much the same

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Wow, I don't have much to add but I thought I would mention that Intels are suppose to be better for mp3 encoding as well.

I bought an AMD because they seem to be the ones trying to advance the technology... maybe not, I don't really understand the differences either.

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in terms of AMD processors, you get a bigger bang for the buck. well at least that applies here.

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