drifterlee opened this issue on May 20, 2007 ยท 21 posts
drifterlee posted Sun, 20 May 2007 at 9:35 PM
Hi: I have a 3.4 gigaherz Pentium 4 single processor PC with 2 gigs of RAM. The problem is the PC has always been a lemon, and I am constantly fixing something in it. I was thinking about just using it for gaming and getting an AMD 5200 64x dual processor that although it is rated at 2.6 gigaherz, benchmarks have shown it to be as fast as a 3.6 gigaherz pentium. It also has 2 gigs of RAM and is upgradable to 4 gigs of RAM, which I plan to do. My current PC cannot take more than 2 gigs. Is it worth it to change to the dual processor? Is AMD actually faster? The 5200 HP system goes for $899.00 US at Circuit City, comes with a 500 gig hardrive, two gigs of RAM, a DVD burner. Anyone familiar with this dual-core processor and Poser? Thanks .I use Poser 6 and 7.