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Originally Posted by SCHWARZE-5
Sempron is a budget processor than Athlon/X2. Athlon whips Sempron's ass all over the PCB. If it's absolutely necessary, upgrade your processor first. If you think your processor's going out on you, you shouldn't buy a decent graphics card only to have the processor be a bottleneck. BUT, since 754's and AGP's are on their way out the door, I would suggest you upgrade to a 939/PCI-E, that way you can at least keep your ram--even then I'm suggesting you upgrade that too. Athlon processors are going hella cheap right--Newegg has a S939 3500+ Venice for 88 bucks. My S754 Sempron 3000+ Palermo was 120 bucks back in January. You can mostly thank Intel with their release of the Core 2 Duo series. =/ Hope that helps a bit.
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S939 is obsolete now as well. AM2 is the new standard for AMD's chips with it's successor, AM3, possibly making an appearance in Q2 2007.
An upgrade to an Athlon X2 system can be pretty damn cheap although the price to performance ratio king right now is Intel's Core2 Duo lineup. The E6300 which is incredibly close to the FX-62 performance-wise is only $180 vs the $800+ for the FX-62. I'd go Intel if you wanted to upgrade.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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