Konichiwaneko

AMD doesn't not save you much money anymore when dealing with high end stuff when compared to lower end.

The motherboards will be the same price, but the Intel board is faster and has more features. (Serial ATA, support for mor ram, blah blah blah)

The p4c 2.4 has hyper threading, the 2100+ doesn't. Hyper threading makes a bigger difference now because most of us multitask, and HT makes it a little snappier.

The p4 also runs at 800fsb (200 quad pumped to 4) so all bandwidth hungry applications (Rendering, Quake, 3d Programs, Encoding) is faster on a p4.

You get a heatsink with a p4 that is basically worth $25

To argue the other side though

AMD chips are cheaper no doubt on the low end. A 2400+ amd chip surely beats out a celeron 2.2 ghz, thus doesn't warrent the price.

The new 333/400 fsb AMD chips run cooler, so the old AMD running hott problem is not as apparent though it still runs quite hot.

The Onboard sound on the Nforce 2 (if it's the nforce one, not the ac97 one) performs extremely well and can save you money.

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I buy intel now because Intel tech trickles down to AMD. It's always been that way. Intel makes a chip and technology, and AMD takes some features and makes it better. The Athlon is basically a p3 with a pumped up floating point. Look at all the proprietay instructions that Intel has built in (MMX,MMX2,SSE,SSE2,HT,etc...) compared to AMD (3dnow). Amd eventually puts support for those features in their chips (albeit a more handicapped one).

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