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Originally posted by eckocomplex
AMD 64-bit CPU's are amazingly speedy with 64 bit apps. Wait until 64-bit Windows comes out if you fairly want to judge the performace of these CPU's. 64-bit is backwards compatiable with 32-bit apps (which includes Windows).
The only upside about the Intel processors with HT is with MPEG encoding, where it performs somewhat faster. Other than that fully go with the AMD processor.
A public beta of Windows XP 64-bit edition is available...