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    A Basic Question on CPU Speeds and Performance

    Thank you very much indeed guys. That website really sorted my head out, good to see the information in a graphical format as its the only way i would understand it. I see what you mean about the 3700+ being the better of the two chips. Cheers
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    A Basic Question on CPU Speeds and Performance

    Thanks for the reply, the Pentium 4 is a standard Pentium 4 2.6 Hyper Thread chip. Does that make any difference or is the 3700+ still the better chip? For example when i look at the specs for some of the games i want to play it says for example Pentium 4 2.1 or AMD equivilent requried...
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    A Basic Question on CPU Speeds and Performance

    Hi Guys I have very little knowledge about CPU's and how they perform, i have a couple of basic questions about how two chips compare to each other very basic question but you have to promise not to laugh when i ask it. :) The two chips are a Pentium 4 2.6 and an AMD Athlon 64 bit 3700+...
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    Complete and Utter Newbie Needs Help

    Thanks semi-pro, for the advice and the warm welcome. I think your right that some of the parts and equivilents are cheaper on overclockers.co.uk. I forgot to mention that i have a HDD, DVD Drive and DVD re-rewriter from my old pc, there in good nick so the plan was to slap them into the...
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    Complete and Utter Newbie Needs Help

    Thanks Squiffy & SirriusB. Ive updated the components below. 604708 AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm 1MB L2 (939 Pin) - Retail with Fan (********.co.uk) £148.05 Asus A8N SLI SE PCI-E (Socket 939) Motherboard £74.88 (********.co.uk) Corsair TwinX 2GB DDR (2x1024MB) XMS3200PT...
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    Complete and Utter Newbie Needs Help

    First of all i would like to apologise for this post, this is probably a type of post you get a lot and you are probably getting sick of them. Im looking to build my first PC, ive done a little background research but i think i may be a little too old and stupid to understand everything...
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