General rule Athlon 64 better for gamming
pentium better for most anything else.
If you dont believe me look at any in game benchmark and it will show you this is true.
Why
A) athlon 64 has on-die memory controller
B)athlon 64 users HT instead of fsb. HT is full-duplex, fsb is not.
c)it already been explain why a lower speed athlon performs as well as the higher speed penitum
If you making this mainly for gamming definally go with a athlon 64
And on the other subject if you are willing(some people are not) I would definally build it your self.
why
A) If you look around for good deals you usually can save money from buying it prebuilt. The higherend the system the more money you will save.
B) You know exactly what going into your computer. You have the power to hand pick all your componets.
C) easier to upgrade. alot of time pre built machine on purpose make it difficult to upgrade.
I priced my current system prebuilt. I saved close to 1000 dollars by building it my self.
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Well the processor isnt the only thing im upgrading... im also upgrading my grahpic card and RAM AND my motherboard so wat mother board do you guys think will be good if i get a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz and a GeForce 6800GT?
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I would really consider the athlon 64 since this for gaming. The geforce 6800GT is a great card you picked well there. How much money you willing to spend on the 3 things? I will be able to make a better recomendation on the motherboard once I know that but generally you want either a nforce 3/nforce 3 ultra or nforce4/nforce 4 ultra or nforce 4 sli(these are for if you go amd and choose a socket 939 athlon 64). which ever which one of these choose it should be by a decent manufactor(asus, msi, gigbyte, dfi, abit).