MiniVanMan
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Okay, I've been reading around, and I have everything picked out EXCEPT for the processor. I'm definitely going AMD based, but am stuck as to which processor.
This will be set up as a gaming computer. If I set it up that way, the rest of my applications will take care of themselves, seeing as I don't really tax my computer with anything else.
So, here's what I've been tossing around, Athlon 64 4000, or 3700. The real question is, is there really a $100.00 increase in performance between the two? Next, I see a lot of people recommend Opterons. Please tell me the advantages of an Opteron over the Athlon, besides overclocking? Doesn't look like the Opteron has any L1 cache, and the Athlon does. How important is this? Other than that, they look very similar. The Opteron 148 is a really inexpensive processor and I wouldn't mind being convinced that that's the way to go.
This will be set up as a gaming computer. If I set it up that way, the rest of my applications will take care of themselves, seeing as I don't really tax my computer with anything else.
So, here's what I've been tossing around, Athlon 64 4000, or 3700. The real question is, is there really a $100.00 increase in performance between the two? Next, I see a lot of people recommend Opterons. Please tell me the advantages of an Opteron over the Athlon, besides overclocking? Doesn't look like the Opteron has any L1 cache, and the Athlon does. How important is this? Other than that, they look very similar. The Opteron 148 is a really inexpensive processor and I wouldn't mind being convinced that that's the way to go.