Bad Bubba wrote:

I am doing Video processing and I had an opportunity to test a friends
Athlon 64 3200+ against a P4 2.8GHz and doing MPG2 encoding the P4 won
hands down.

I guess you didn't use 64 bit software on the Athlon 64?



I've always been an AMD guy and I'll continue to use them in my other
computers, but for my video editing machine, it looks like P4 is the
best way to go.

Probably not if 64 bit software is used on an Athlon 64.



In article , says...
Forget about Intel. Buy an Athlon 64 instead. Many of those who buy a
32 bit processor in '04 will probably in '05 regret that they didn't buy
a 64 bit processor instead when great 64 bit software is released.

Bad Bubba wrote:

I finally setteled on an ASUS motherboard with an Intel chipset and now
I'm trying to figure out which CPU to get.

I already have four 512MB PC3200 DDR chips for two gigs of RAM which I
believe will work with the ASUS motherboard:

http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=...eluxe&langs=01

So, should I get a 533Mhz CPU to match the memory speed? How exactly do
you match memory with an Intel CPU?

Thanks for any insight.