08-06-2003, 05:59 PM
i'm building my own computer too...but i haven't ordered the parts yet, but i'm getting ready to do so. i do think the comparable pentium4's would win a benchmark contest against the athlons considering their 800FBS and hyper-threading architecture. laughably, you can buy a p4 2.8 for almost half the price of an athlon xp 3200 and it would perform as well or better at modern gaming than the amd.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030513/index.html
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030513/index.html