building my system again

[ABCC]

hi, i currently have a P4 2.0A 1G rambus, P4t-e asus motherboard, Nvidia Gefroce 5600 FX ,

Im looking to upgrade this with in the next 2 months. I love building and chosing all my parts to coustom build my PC.

On the video card , i want the Radeon All In Wonder x800 XT 256 PCI express

I know i want a Raid mother board so i may have more than 1 hard drives, but i havent decided or looked in into which one i would like yet.

Im still alittle confused on what CPU to get. P4 3.4 or Athlon-64 3500

The athlon has for 64-bit, but it shows it running as a 2.2 ghz, and the pentium as a 3.4 ghz and both run for about the same price $250

anyone know which cpu you would go for ?? Thanks

[Luciel]

ok amd and intel measure speeds differently thats why if amd name their processor 3200 it means its the equivalent of a pentium 3.2 :)

[ABCC]

im still alittle new to PCI Express , but which one is faster ?

AGP 8X or PCI Express X16

thanks

[ABCC]

think pci express 16 is , was just wondering why ati made the aiw x600 in pci express and not the x800 xt

maybe because lots of people dont have pci express on their systems yet

[Luciel]

pci ex will be faster than agp, so thats ur first answer, bout the second one, well yeah its fairly new, its like serial ata hdds in a way, mostly everyone has ata