I am pretty sure about this, but I thought I'd get a reply from some experts first, just to justify my stance.
I intend to build a system for a company which makes falconry videos.
Current spec:
AMD Athlon 64bit 3400+ 754pin/1Mb L2cache Retail Boxed with 3 Year Warranty CPU
£300
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=58432
MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R SKT 754 K8T800 8x AGP GB LAN 1394,S-ATA RAID 6CH Sound - £90
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52178
1.5GB DDR Kingston PC3200 RAM CL2 - £185 for 1GB + £85 for 512mb<basically 3 x 512mb sticks>
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=50358 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52788
Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB 8mb Cache 7200rpm Serial ATA - OEM - £150
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=50033
DVD Burner – Dual R/RW Plextor 8x DVD DUAL R/RW IDE BLACK BURNER - Retail Box -£110
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52651
Nvidia GeForce FX 5950 256mb DDR, VIVO - £290
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59666
Chieftec BX-01Extreme Black Atx Case With No PSU - £35
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55641
PSU – Qtec 550W - £25
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=34825
Chic Office Keyboard PS/2 Black - £4.63
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=49648
Chic 1330 Optical Mouse £3.88
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=42130
Total: £1388.51 including VAT
We already have monitors for it.
Anyway, our other technician seems to think that Athlon 64s haven't been tested with Avid, Adobe Premiere and Adobe AfterEffects <not sure about the spellings, heh, I don't work with the programs>.
I am pretty damn sure they have and have proven to be just as good as Intel's offerings, although at a lower price.
Am I right?
He believes that a Pentium 4 is a better bet and although I wouldn't go against him if money wasn't an issue, it is. The idea is not to blow over £600 on an extreme edition P4 that will perform only marginally better.
We want something very fast, but paying loads extra for only small performance increases seems totally pointless.
Opinions?