Which is better, AMD or Intel?

Question

Hello everybody,
I still a newbie about parts of computer. I heard alot about Amd is better for gaming but not for Intel Pentium 4.
Can any 1 tell mi exactly what is the different between the two of them and also the advantage and benefit of using each of them.
Cause I be getting a new desktop on this sat,but still unsure of which to get.
Thanks everyone.
 :P

Answer 1

It really doesn't matter if you choose and AMD or an Intel CPU because it is the graphics card that does all the heavy duty number crunching and graphics rendering to create the lovely eye candy in games that turn us on.  In the small minority of games that do rely heavily on the processing power of the CPU, again, brand doesn't really matter.  Go for an AMD Anthon 2400+ or faster, or, a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz or faster, and be happy.
For the graphics card, choose one either based on the ATI Radeon 9700 chipset or better, or, an nVidia Ti 4600 based
card or better.  Avoid the nVidia FX 5800 like the plague unless you want perforated ear drums.  If you can stand the wait, the FX 5900 based cards will be appearing late this month/early next, and they are bound to be exceptionally drool worthy.
AMD CPUs had the edge over Intel CPUs in their ability to do floating point operations.  3D perpective games require an immense amount of floating point computation, but these days the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) on the graphics card takes over the burden and does a far far better job.
Intel's latest CPUs have caught up with AMD in floating point processing speed.  Intel CPUs were more affected than AMD CPUs by relatively slow computer memory related technology.   The less time a CPU has to wait to read or write data to or from computer memory the better it will perform.  Since the introduction the intel's 875p (Canterwood) and 865p (Springdale) motherboard chipsets, and with their ability to interleave two banks 400Mhz memory (PC3200 memory) to provide the *effect* of 800MHz memory, I suspect the memory bandwidth bottleneck has altogether disappeared.
AMD CPUs plug into socket A motherboards, and Intel Pentium 4s plug into socket 478 motherboards.
Both manufacturers make really great CPUs. If you get an AMD CPU, buy a motherboard with an nVidia nForce2 chipset for it.  For an Intel CPU I recommend an 865p (Springdale) based moatherboard, or an 875p one if you want the very best of what Intel has to offer and you are no hindered by either lack of money or tight-arseness.
Sir Honky.