i have a choice of getting a birday presnt on my birthday in march (duno what) or a amd 64x2 4400+ now give ur oninion on what i should do though i think its oviours realy

What a coincidence. I'm hoping to get a 4400+ for my birthday in March. Heh.

Anyway, get the CPU!

get the cpu, depening on which cpu you have at the moment

Depends what you're running at the moment. If you've already got something like an Athlon 64 4000, don't get it. If you have a Pentim 4 overclocked to 800GHz, you should get it, because it'll outperform it :)

in this sys currently i have nothin a hole sys ready 4 use except the cpu though the cpu i was putin in it was a amd athalon 64 3000+

I thought you couldn't buy those any more? The 3500+ and the 3700+ are very cheap (they were the same price when I bought the 3700+ for my family) for the performance you get out of them. The 3500+ and the 3700+ both run at 2.2GHz, but the 3500+ has 512KiB of L2 cache, whereas the 3700+ has 1MiB.

You can't, he got it a while ago, but the PC it's in is pretty broken, so he's building a new one. He wants to know wether he could upgrade that aswell.

I think the upgrade is worth it as it adds an extra 512KB L2 cache and 0.4GHz per core, plus it's 2 cores, so you get even more of that power for your game (you can control which core apps run on, AFAIK).

Oh, and it's exactly the same CPU upgrade I'm planning...

I'm not upgrading my computer......

In a years time, I probably won't be able to upgrade... I'll need new everything; new motherboard, new processor, new memory, and probably a new graphics card or two. My HDD will be far outdated too, I mean, 7200rpm 200GB is pretty much standard now. Those Raptor's are looking mean!

So I've decided, if I want something new, I'll just make a new computer, and sell my current one.

LOL, that's just a "complete" upgrade.

well iv just got the cpu ordered vn is angry cause hes only got an old athalon xp 2ghz and now im guna have 2 64 bit systems and hes still bk in the 32 bit systems

lol, why doesnt he get a 64-bit system

no money hes got 2 cars hes fixin and tryin to get them on the road and tryin to go to america to see his girlfriend and can't get a job cause the 1s he can get he dosn't go 4 and 1s he gos 4 he won't and don't get so he cant aford to upgrades

Yeah, lol. Well you now officially have the best CPU on this forum, until I join you in a few months. [size=1:e1289e2d53]Still, I have a better graphics card than you![/size:e1289e2d53] :D

Well, unless someone has a system I don't know about?

well it is in my comp now and its great though i do need to do a lot of driver things and stuff to fix add or w/e but with some tests of its power with cod 2 and its great though ive now got a week or so of software settin up

Nice! In the task manager do you get t choose which core each process runs on, so you can have an entire core for one app?