Sounds good. Good Reviews. YAY!  

[edit: i know it's not the top CPU on the market. but i am building a budget PC. I'm going to build the most future proof computer you can make with only 300 GPB. Excluding the monitor etc...

Post edited at 12:46 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 by DaveH

TO be fair, I've not been on many (if any) state of the art PCs. Meh.

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It will be decent for media and work. I was running an AMD64 3500+ up until about a month ago and it was fine for most tasks besides gaming (Played all games up until 2007 or so without problems).

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I'm hoping to play CoD4, cyrsis and TF2 on the PC with at least medium graphics with steady framerate. I think i may struggle with cyrsis. Hmm...  

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Quote: from espresso8097 at 2:34 pm on Sep. 8, 2008

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It will be decent for media and work.  I was running an AMD64 3500+ up until about a month ago and it was fine for most tasks besides gaming (Played all games up until 2007 or so without problems).

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the 3500+ is obsolete? It's got no more than 512KB Cache, whereas the 4800+ has double that, with much higher clock speed. I'm not great at CPUs i'm reading a CPU comparison book by PC Pro.  

I'm hoping to play CoD4, cyrsis and TF2 on the PC with at least medium graphics with steady framerate. I think i may struggle with cyrsis. Hmm...

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A 3500+ is basically obsolete, especially because I was using a soc. 939 motherboard.  Stuck with DDR400.

A 4800+ will have no problem with TF2 and CoD4 on at least mid settings.  I played CoD4 and TF2 on mid settings at 1280*1024 with the 3500+, 1.5GB DDR400 RAM, and a 8600GT 256mb.  

My current system can handle Crysis at mid settings (at 1280*1024) which is  C2Q6700, 2GB PC6400, and 8600GT.  You should be able to just run 1024*768 (or similar) at mid settings and get by if you have a decent graphics card.

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