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Subject: Don't want to waste my money please help?

Author: William Sorin

Date: 11:15:48 09/22/05


Hi

 Today I went down to PC-Club and was able to spend 330.00 bucks for a Athlon
Dual core 3800. My primary interest in a new processor is for chess, To my
surprise the clerk actually discouraged me from buying this processor. He told
me that i would be wasting my money and that a regular athlon64 3500 would be a
cheaper and better buy. Unless i was running multiple applications the clerk
told me i would not see a significant speed up over the regular athlon64. Now
I'm not rich and I am hoping to be able to overclock the dual core 3800 to 4400
speeds. Can someone tell me if I'm making the right decision to go for the dual
core 3800. Like I said my main interest is a monster machine for chess!!



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