My current gaming machine is running a p4 3.ghz 2mb cache 800fsb with 1Gb ddr2 533mhz and a xfx 7900gs pci-e.
I have always bought Intel chips, right back to the days when I was running my 386x. Recently I have been toying with the idea of switching to AMD as the perfomance of their chips seems to be superior to the number crunching Intel's for gaming.
All I want is some advice on which Athlon processor to get and which motherboard to maximise my gaming capabilities. I don't really understand the AMD way of classing chips (with numbers rather than Intels methos of mhz) and have been told that direct comparisons with Intel chips on the basis of mhz, fsb etc are not valid.
My budget for processor and mobo is about £180.
I am not concerned with dual core at this moment.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!