Quick PC Question

[Hitch]

Hey,

I have a quick PC question about RAM and Processors.
I want to find out which PC is best, for speed and performance, overall, out of the 3 below.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PC 1
Processor speed: 2.0 GHz
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2
Memory (RAM): 1GB

PC 2
Processor speed: 2.8 GHz
Processor: Intel Pentium D
Memory (RAM): 2GB

PC 3
Processor speed: 1.8 GHz
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory (RAM): 1GB

Would the Processors in PC 1 and 3 make up for 1GB less, from PC 2?

If it was your decision, and you wanted speed/performance, which one would you go for? :tu:
Price isn't a issue, they are roughly all the same price.
They would be running Windows Vista Home Premium, so i know it needs 512MB RAM

I know PC3 would cost more than PC 1, but, it's the RAM in PC2, and the Processors in PC 1 & 3 that have got me deciding.

Thanks

Adrian

EDIT: If you guys could type a list out too, best to worst.
eg
1
3
2

That would be great. :tu:

 

[bluearrow]

i think i would go for PC2 but if you can get a 2GB Ram for the PC3 its not bad too, i need plenty of Ram for resources eating softwares like CS2 and Dreamweaver. also im running Apache and Mysql in my PC so RAM wut matters me most.

 

[holyroller]

I would go for the 2Gig Ram also. But the software I run also seems to like lots of memory, which I dont have.

 

[Hitch]

Ok, thanks for the advice.
Rep added to both. :tu:

But, would the Processors in PC1 and PC3 make up for the lack of RAM? :red:

 

[fab]

I think RAM is more influential. When we want to upgrade PC, we should go for RAM first, rather than CPU.

 

[sunilvarma]

go for #2.

 

[Hitch]

Thanks for the help guys.
Rep added.

I think i will go for more RAM then. :tu:

 

[Peter]

do you not have the option of upgrading how much ram is put into the machines. Ram is very cheap nowadays (unless you buy from places such as dell).

 

[Dooodles]

I would also go with option two.

 

[Mr.mike]

Go with a faster AMD CPU and 2GBs of ram. I'm currently using a 3800x2 with 1GB of ram and it's still blazing fast.

:imho:

I agree with you,

I would go with the faster processor then just buy more ram.... because ram isnt to expensive