AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton or AMD Athlon 64 2800?

[quietb05]

Im gonna be building a inexpensive PC soon and I was wondering which of these processors is better?

 

[003]

64

 

[desiboi]

AMD 64 all the way.

 

[quietb05]

any reason why?

 

[GameGURU]

64-Bit will come into use when Longhorn comes out. The Barton core, while still good, will still be a 32-bit CPU withought he capability of 64-bit computing (which is the future). 64-Bit cpu's process data twice as fast as the 32-bits which will, in a long time...be phazed out.

 

[gaara]

Actually, no, 64 bit processes are not double the speed of 32 bit processes. 64 bit refers specifically to the number of registers the CPU can use to hold memory. 64 bit processors can basically address more memory than 32 bit processors, thus why you see such a large jump to 4GB. A quad socket Opteron board would be able to support 32GB I believe.

The 2800+ would be the faster solution due to the better memory bandwidth over the XP.