Processors?

Question

I am looking at computers. I am fairly proficient as far as most features are concerned, but I am not sure about the new processors that have come out since my last computer purchase. When choosing a computer, is the Intel Celeron D 360 or the AMD Athlon 64 better?

Answer 1

Athlon 64 hands down. Even a single core Athlon 64 would be far superior to a Celeron D. Celeron is basically Intel's bottom of the barrel, cheapest, slowest, lowest quality processor.

Answer 2

"the mobo, the vid card, the reliability of the mfgr and the quality of tech support is MORE important"

you have no idea what your talking about yes, the mobo is important, but it would be much better to have a crappy mobo with a good processor rather than a good mobo and a crappy processor....

The Processor is the most important part of the computer along with the ram and the HDD. Video cards while nice are not required. And tech support is definately not most important. if you buy a really nice computer you really should have no need for tech support...

Answer 3

celeron is the economy version of intel processors and are usually good for light users and non-professionals...athlon 64 is better..........or you could get a core 2 duo (2 processors in one) extra value

Answer 4

The Athalon is equivalent to the Core2 Duo. Be aware while having a better processor is nice, the mobo, the vid card, the reliability of the mfgr and the quality of tech support is MORE important. I would be asking which chipset they use. Call Tech support, tell them it is a presales question. If they can't answer the question, you know what type of support to (NOT) look forward to in the future. If they are able to cheerfully and intellegently discuss their product, it better to have that level of support than to have what you think is a slightly fater processor and have horrid tech support.

Answer 5

amd