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    Yeah, its just slighlty annoying when you can see the CPU is only running at ten percent but your waiting for the geriatric 9600 to limp along and catch up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hitman67
    Well it's just I shelled out close to a grand on this PC not too long ago and it is starting to get me really peed off, I wish I'd have gone for something slightly more expensive.

    And if Socket 754 is getting dated what does that make Socket A? I still have a Socket A Machine in the loft with an Athlon XP in it.
    Ah, I still have a working Socket A setup too, they make good use for somethings.

    Well, you could upgrade your mobo, but think of it this way - if you upgrade your mobo then you have to upgrade your GPU anyway (as you wanted to) then you're speaking about upgrading your CPU)...that's basically upgrading all the parts you need to convert to PCI - E. What you have is a pretty good system anyway, and it's fine for the games you play, if you want to keep what you have now you'd be better simply upgrading the GPU to something AGP, or else going for S939.
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    Ok I think I may have hit a saving grace, I've just picked up cheap a used Athlon FX-51, so I think a New PC may be on the cards.
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