[vgvp67]

...Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core processor 3800+ 2.00 Ghz?

[Big C]

Come on now. That question is like saying, Which is better Pentium 2 chip or the Pentium 4 chip.The X2 dual core is better. Now again, the Pentium 4 may play some games faster cuz they do not have the games to fully use the dual core processor chip yet. But with the dual core you are already upgraded. Say in one year when the dual core video games come out they will leave the Pentium 4 chip in the dust. Like the PCI-Express card leaves the PCI card in the dust.Bookmark the following. I give this to all the grasshoppers on line.Check the download section at these sites for some free downloads. Also bookmark them and you can learn about computers.http://www.cnet.com/http://www.pcwor.../center_5.html

[Citizen Slave]

The AMD is better. Less heat issues and if u use it for video recoding it will finish quicker. A dual core running multi threaded apps will usually outperform a single core of higher speed.

[blazeimurill]

the Athlon 64 is far faster, not including its second core. Plus you can overclock the Athlon to 2.4 Ghz. You can also check www.anandtech.com or www.tomshardware.com for more info.

[mash14]

We all agree, the dual core AMD is by far better than the single chip pentium 4 3.06. I have pentium 4 3.4 and it's slow when I run 2 or 3 things at a time. waiting to upgrade to the Intel dual core or AMD depending on the mlb. good luck