I was thinking about buying this AMD CPU Combo

http://www.slickdeals.net/?permadeal=9524#direct_deal_9524

I know this isn't the latest and greatest, but for email, internet, video editing, etc, will this do the trick? or should I jump up to say an intel e4300

5/24/2007 12:13:25 AM

can't beat the price, any core2duo even the e4300 will run you twice as much including motherboard.

but then again the core2duo is going to be about 30% faster or so i'd say.

in terms of upgradability, socket 939 is already legacy hardware..

[Edited on May 24, 2007 at 1:11 AM. Reason : .]

5/24/2007 1:10:53 AM

Based on what you said, I might jump on it, as I think it will do fine for my needs. The main reason I haven't, is having to buy DDR memory, and it is kinda expensive. Should I put 1 or 2 gigs in for running XP?

Thanks for the help.

5/24/2007 8:32:06 AM

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5/24/2007 8:54:17 AM

you recommending I get a zalman HS?

5/24/2007 9:38:45 AM

no, he's recommending you use the thread that's already been started to post questions like this

5/24/2007 10:40:08 AM

my bad....forgot about that. This can be locked up if needed.

5/24/2007 10:51:45 AM