Brolly345 wrote:I'd say if you want to spend a whole shitload of money on a processor that you can't even use to it's fullest potential for a while, due to the lack of 64 bit applications and OS, then I would buy an AMD 64 bit processor, but if you want something that is a decent price I would go with a P4. All the equipment you would need to buy just to run the 64 bit processor would cost an insane amount of money, and in my opinion, is a total waste.
Except you can buy an Athlon-64 3000+ for under 300 dollars and a Prescott will easily cost the same or more.
On top of this, it's not like 64-bit applications are that far out. It's not even a year and even if it was, a year isn't that long either. I could use a similar argument with 'Why waste your money on something that will be obsolete in a year?'
Brolly345 wrote:If you really think about it, buying what's good now and then upgrading later is a better idea because, after a year or two, you arent going to miss the money you spent on the thing before you upgraded. But it all boils down to how much your willing to spend.
Except you *can't* upgrade from Prescott. You can't just take the chip out and magically put in a 64-bit processor into your motherboard. If you go with 32-bit now, you're effectively saying you'll stick with 32-bit with no possibility of upgrading to 64 without buying a whole ton of stuff.
It effectively comes down to buying now for the future or buying in the future. One requires you to put the $ down now while the other will be cheaper (not really based on what I said in the first part of this response), but then you'll spend a bunch of $ again to upgrade. You still spend a ton of money, but it's a matter of when and how much.





