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Lockjaw · 03-11-2005, 10:27 PM

Against the old Athlon XP chips?
I'm planning on slightly upgrading my current PC because frankly it's about as archiac as you can get and still be functional. I want to upgrade to premium stuff but budget disallows this for now,but I want to at least PLAY some of the new games and I can barely run Battlefield 1942 on the lowest settings on my current rig.

I was looking at the Fry's paper today and they have a 2800+ Semperon and mobo combo for 99 bucks. This would help me a ton because I could then spend the rest of my budget on a passable videocard(Radeon 9600SE possibly instead of the onboard video which is a Radeon 7000 chip)
Now I'm fairly certain this will be a good bit better than my current set up(XP 1800+)but exactly how much better will this be? Are they a waste of money would I just be better off saving my bucks and suffering for another 6-7 months until I can get a REAL Athlon 64 processor or does this sound at least some what feasible to play stuff like Half-Life 2 at least decently well?

03-11-2005, 10:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lockjaw Junkie	How do Sempron chips stack up? Against the old Athlon XP chips? I'm planning on slightly upgrading my current PC because frankly it's about as archiac as you can get and still be functional. I want to upgrade to premium stuff but budget disallows this for now,but I want to at least PLAY some of the new games and I can barely run Battlefield 1942 on the lowest settings on my current rig. I was looking at the Fry's paper today and they have a 2800+ Semperon and mobo combo for 99 bucks. This would help me a ton because I could then spend the rest of my budget on a passable videocard(Radeon 9600SE possibly instead of the onboard video which is a Radeon 7000 chip) Now I'm fairly certain this will be a good bit better than my current set up(XP 1800+)but exactly how much better will this be? Are they a waste of money would I just be better off saving my bucks and suffering for another 6-7 months until I can get a REAL Athlon 64 processor or does this sound at least some what feasible to play stuff like Half-Life 2 at least decently well?