Hello,Some advice please....Intel or AMD for the best Flightsimulator performance?THX :)

My brother has a P4 1,53 Ghz, and I have a Athlon 1,53. I've installed FS on his computer and I get far better frame rates on my Athlon, with all the settings maxed out.

Depends on your budget really.AMD is good if you're after a cheaper solution. That is until you look at their top of the line CPUs.P4 have come down a lot in price recently, but I feel AMD have more power when it comes to gaming.

Since every computer in my house has an AMD processor (from AMD D8088 in the XT to the Athlon in this comp) in it, I will stick to AMD for now. My 1.2GHz isn't top of the line, but it still gives decent performance in games, thats all I care about. Although when I installed FS2002 on the P4 1.9GHz systems in my college on even a lowly Matrox G400, fps was actually pretty smooth. Could be because of the 512MB RAM in that computer. I only have 256, so I do occasionally stutter in FS2002.

Having recently gotten rid of my XP2400 and replaced it w my P4 I can say that unless you are willing to spend the money for the newer AMD's you will see better performance from a P4. The newer XP's are scalling very well w the P4's.If you do a dollar for dollar comparison, AMD.Performance per dollar depends on the clock speed you choose.Bobby

Toms Hardware (tomshardward.com) site has a good article giving benchmarks for just about every processor out there. It is impossible to generalize. That won't stop me from trying though. The AMD chips that competed with the P4 Willamette core were in general outstanding, lower priced options. At the highest levels, the P4 Northwood seems slightly better than the Barton core AMD offerings at higher mghz. Though I am guessing you pay for it. See for yourself.