Intel® Pentium® v Athlon™ Pick a Pc

BaileyB

Ok which is the best

I buying a PC and there are 2 which are more or less the same

PC 1 - Has 13 in 1 internal card reader and Media Centre upgrade and

Intel® Pentium® D 805 2.66GHz


PC 2 - Has No Card Reader, or Media centre but

Athlon™ 64 X2 4200+

Here are the rest of the specs

Genuine Windows® XP SP2 (PC 1 has Media 2005)
(Does not include Operating System Re-installation CD)
VISTA UPGRADE
Collect & Return, 1 Year Service only
19" Value Flat Panel (E197FP)
1024MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz [2x512]
250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst™ cache
16x DVD +/- RW Drive
256MB nVidia® GeForce® 7300 Turbocache graphics card
Integrated Audio with Dolby Digital 7.1 capability
No Speakers
Dell™ Black Entry Quietkey USB Keyboard - UK/Ire (QWERTY)
Dell 2 Button USB Wheel Mouse - Black


Any ideas which one is best

PC 1 is £499 and PC 2 is £504 inc Vat and Shipping

(this excludes quidco)

BaileyB

anyone as need to buy this tonight?

Rooked_2

I like AMD processors but u didnt give much info on the first one - im guessing that you prefer the second one too?

BaileyB

Sorry the first one is the same apart from the 13in1 and media xp

Rooked_2

Id take the second one 64bit processor with upgrade to vista - looks like a reasonable package

gaming_guy

i would take the amd one

ollyshaw

Take the AMD dual core, nice!

esuhl

I'd definitely go for the AMD too!

Took_Me_Away

AMD dual core all the way... got one sat here always used Intel before... wont be using them again