Help me out here guys INTEL or AMD

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    I'm planing o make two nwe pc's one fro my car and the other if as a multimedia pc and a gaming pc so i'm confused what should i use intel or AMD processor
     
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    try both, amd for gaming & intel for car??
     
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    If your not going to go with the FX series of AMD just do a standard Pentium 4 processor (sub $200: tigerdirect.com) in both systems. Im too going to build a MCE PC and I would reccomend using a 36 GB Raptor drive for your boot drive, and application drive, and then setup 2 250GB Raid 0 SATA drives, for your multi media files. One of my friends (hes rich) built a Gaming/ MCE PC, and here are his configs:

    Intel D925XCVLK
    74GB Raptor Drive x4 (set up with RAID 0)
    FireWire 400GB external hard drive
    2GB DDR2 675mhZ
    Intel Pentium 4 3.6 ghZ
    XFX GeForce 6800 PCIe
    Then he has it rigged with cooling devices. Surprizingly it costed him about $3000 becuase he got most of the parts off Ebay. Last week he upgraded form a P4 2.8 to the 3.6. I dont notice a difference but I dont use it all the time so hes a better judge than me. He used a liquid cooling device meant to deal with AMD processors and rigged it to workd with his 775 processor. The CPU doesnt make any noise what so ever.
     
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    thanks every one and ag22 u gave me a great idea but i'm going to skip 2 200GB HARDDRIES and have 1 160gb coz i'm having kinda low budget cant get a job too young and mom wont gime me morethan $ 450
     
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    2 computers for $450, talk about a shoe string budget!!
     
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    ya coz i wasted my allowence and boght a lot games so thats all she's ging to give me guess i have to shop on ebay
     
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    how many computers are you going to have than as you have 2 on the other thread??
     
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    well in this case i thought of upgrading my desktop
     
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    than upgrade motherboard, cpu to 775 type socket but keep everything else
     
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    As I said Im building a PC right now too. Here are my exact configs.
    Intel mobo w/ DDR2, PCIe, RAID, Prescott support
    Intel P4 2.8 ghZ processor
    512 Corsair PC4200 DDR2 (I want 1G, but no money)
    74 GB Raptor drive (Im adding an ext. when I get $$$)
    XFX GeForce 6200 256MB

    So far I have purchased the mobo, and prereherials. When I get my B-Day money Im gonna buy the rest. Im using a piece of crap HP 17" CRT monitor right now, and thats the nxt thing Im gonna upgrade. I just bough JBL Creature II,Sony 16x Dual layer DVD, the Logitech laser mouse, and a standard bluetooth keyboard. After deciding my P4 2.8 Dimension wasn getting it done (integrated graphics, and no AGP) I decided to build my own.

     
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