Please suggest!! Should I go for an AMD Athlon or an Intel Pentium 4 Dual Core  

everyone knows about intel pentium but everyone tells me AMD is better for the dual core so i would go with that, hey that makes the vote 4-3 now, you should get a AMD, lol

Definetely if cost don't matter for you then Intel is the top priority .Intel is excellent in all the feature which any body can expect from a company .This is the leader in the industry of it's category .AMD have some problem with high temperature as i heard from one of my friend .

nishant go for a pentium 1 d best.

ok lets take a little explain, and hope this right ^^!, if perfomance is your main target, than you should go for Intel, but not intel pentium series, the newest intel processor on market for common user is intel core2duo, yes it fast as lightning, but you should know also, computer is not only about processor, there is also memory, motherboard, harddisk, vga, etc, all of them should be balanced to get the best perfomance on one system, if you could balanced all those peripherrals power than go for Intel.

i would recommend you to go for Inter core 2 duo not intel Pentium D dual core.The core 2 due is best and outshows amd and other intel processors....

i prefer AMD since i am using one.I use AMD because
--comparatively cheap
--high performance
--high stabilty
--greater support for gaming
i recommned AMD FX 64 bit computing.It has many advantage over intel pentium 4 processors.but i heard that intel pentium duo core2 is much better than other precedures and a like performance with AMD 64.so i f you are going to buy a new computer either you go for AMD FX 64 or Pentium 4 Duo core 2.

AMD user way back since 2000! AMDs are definitely cheaper than Intel's, and the performace are quite the same. I barely notice the difference between an AMD and its equivalent Pentium counterpart! And with the money I save, I would be able to buy a bigger hard drive, bigger memory, bigger monitor, extra peripherals and the likes! And since AMD is getting a foothold on the market, Intel was forced to slash down its price. In the end, it is us consumers who benefit in the long run, instead of Intel monopolizing the market.:)