I like to advise go with AMD 64 system.

I have built three of those: One to my friend, one to my relative and now
one to myself. We all are very happy with them.

Just a week ago I built my new A64 3500+ based system. I'm glad I did...
even thought it was not cheap! I could have built a very decent Intel
Pentium based system cheaper... but I wanted AMD64 system with Socket939
based motherboard.

With this system I have enabled the Cool'n' Quiet, the temperatures (System
and CPU) are VERY low in normal usage. When fully loaded for long time the
CPU temperatures get to "normal" range around 55C, but that's about 1-5% of
the time my computer is on. I'd like to draw an analogy to a car: How often
do you drive your car with gas pedal floored? Yes... not very often and
absolutely not all the time. It just seems like with the old technology
(Read: Intel) the "car" speed is adjusted by applying brakes, the gas is
always floored! But with AMD we have the gas pedal we can press more or less
depending on how fast the "car" needs to move. Smart? Yes, I think so too...
I'm sure Intel will follow AMD with this (once again... ; ), and they will
implement a dynamic power saving system with their Pentium "X" lines. Maybe
once their desktop CPU's are based on Pentium M core soon (Yes, P4 will be
dead not too much in the future...) they will have their version of
Cool'n'Quiet for desktop processors.

Instability? What is that? I have not noticed such a thing for a long time
in any properly configured system. Be it Intel or AMD.



"Codemutant" wrote in message
om...
I am intel celeron 333mhz user.., I recently decided to buy a new
computer.
The system is most propably going to be used to run a linux version
and do
some serious programming. May be a little bit of games, movies.. and
multimedia
can also be thoght of in the Things-to-do list. I was thinking of
buying
an AMD64 3ghz based computer. But my friends are advicing me to go for
an Intel
pentium 2.8 HT system. They argue that AMD is unreliable and
overheating of the cpu is
very common. They said that for saving money i must not compramise on
reliablity and performance in the long run.
What should i buy: an intel based system or an AMD?