-- Posted by Daveh at 12:45 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 I just bought it. 49.99 GPB. It's the retail version. Brand New. Will be adding it to my new media and work PC i'm building. It's dual core. 1MB Cache. 2.5ghz. 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... -- Posted by BLUEAUTOMATIC at 12:47 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 Nah, it's pretty good. My computer runs it, and it's the best computer I've ever been on. TO be fair, I've not been on many (if any) state of the art PCs. Meh. -- Posted by espresso8097 at 2:34 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 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). -- Posted by Daveh at 3:13 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 Quote: from espresso8097 at 2:34 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 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). the 3500+ is obsolete?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...   -- Posted by espresso8097 at 3:33 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 Quote: from daveh at 5:13 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 Quote: from espresso8097 at 2:34 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 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). the 3500+ is obsolete?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... 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. -- Posted by jamesc06 at 6:36 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 Why do AMD have so much less cache than Intel processors? -- Posted by rand0mguy at 6:37 pm on Sep. 8, 2008 i have the 6000+ and it funs like lightning so yours should be good too