Quote Originally Posted by M20Turbo
I noticed that some of you guys use AMD and others use Intel? Why would you chose one over the other?
AMD used to be the best bang for the buck, and often outran Intel clock for clock.

For instance, the XP series processors were modeled "2500+" but really ran at 1,883 MHz or so, yet they out performed, or performed like a 2,500 MHz P4 hence the modeling. And so a 3200+ was supposed to be similar to 3.2GHz Intel. However, Intel began with the dual core and 64 bit stuff that became way more affordable than AMD's X2 and Athlon 64 x 2 stuff. And, to top it all off, AMD made it clear they were concerned with trying to wring horsepower from their chips without making them any more power efficient. Higher power consuming processors run hotter, so performance is worse, in effect.

Vista does recognize 4 processors. I am sure Home Basic may not but Ultimate will recognize 128GB+ RAM and I think something like 32 CPUs I am not sure.