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Xen on 17 October 2011
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Snesboy said:
Xen said:
Snesboy said:

Bolded 1: The Phenom II series is pretty solid. Even the X6's, even if they are a bit pointless. But you are right about Intel's processors. They are great, especially when you are building your own machine (like most of us do). However, a lot of companies like to overcharge on laptop's just because they're powered by an i5 dual-core.

Bolded 2: The AMD Athlon 64x2 series was ridiculous. Thankfully, prices have gone down a lot for those, but since they're so old, who would want one anymore? Well, except for me. I got the last one on Newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103980

AM2? Haha, you must really love your AMD CPU's. AM2 accepts CPU's that are better than any 64x2.

However, I just wanted to get the cheapest possible CPU and I remember my first computer had a 64x2 that wasn't too bad... Just wanted to construct a similar computer to my first one with updated graphics and WinXP...here I made a thread about it:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=135579&page=1#

Not a bad choice. I'm going through updating my Pentium 4 set right now as well - getting a Pentium E6700 soon, so I can play more LAN games with friends (for a total of 3 PC's for that!).