Which one is a better chip... there both competatively priced

Now, you have to understand this, the athlon 64 bit, might even perform WORSE then a regular p4 without ht. How is this? Well, some programs that use really low cache, such as word processors may perform slower on the 64 bit. Me, I would buy the P4 with HT, it just.... well....seems better. I personally like Intel better than Athlon. I may not be right but, hey...

Low performance in word processing??? Hahahaha!!! Man, that 64-bit notepad is so fast! Wow! Hahaha! Go for the A64 3400+, it's only $400 and it outperforms the FX in most tests. P4 better than A64? NEVER!!!
Oh and Salman, I hear you. I was once a 13 year old computer geek. Now I'm a 14 year old computer geek (who rakes in $3000 a month from selling computers)!

No really man it's true, on techtv, the screensavers they explained about how a 32 bit program might slow down a 64bit. And, I would sell computers, but... im noyl 13 unlike 14.

This is still x86. x86-64bit is not slower than x86-32bit. The Athlon's do not use their 64bit extensions yet (due to the lack of O/S support at the moment, microsoft is still finishing XP64bit). the new Business winstone and content creation winstone puts the Athlon 64's ahead of the Pentium 4's. Also, at games, The Pentium 4 Extreme Edition is beaten, look at some reviews. Next you'll be saying a 2.6GHz celeron is faster than a 1.8GHz Duron

And, although the Athlon XP beat the Pentium 4 at Word Processing and business applications, why would you need extra FPS in Word, so what, It runs well on a Athlon 600 with 64mb of ram, it won't run much faster on a 1.4GHz ThunderBird with 128Mb ram, and the speed increase won't be noticeable between that and a Prometia cooled Athlon 64 FX57.

Oh for f*ck's sake, this is getting sad

You're comparing speed of business documents on the Athlon 64 and P4?????

There is NO NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE in speed between them running that type of thing at all so SHUT UP TALKING ABOUT IT

MY INTEL CELERON PC DOES BUSINESS DOCUMENTS FAST AND THAT'S FECKING 550MHZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I guess your right. I mean even if a program does load 0.000000000000004 seconds faster than the other. lol