04-07-2006, 11:28 PM
I would lean towards a dual core AMD CPU and try for a video card that supports shader model 3.0.
I realize budget concerns and your video card availability are impacting choices. I'm just concerned with value of your dollar over the long term.
Software is taking more and more advantage of dual core processing. With AMD you already have the 64 bit covered, dual core is the next step. If you do video encoding dual core speeds the process way up and certain games, applications, and Windows Vista will be able to take advantage of multi-core systems.
I realize budget concerns and your video card availability are impacting choices. I'm just concerned with value of your dollar over the long term.
Software is taking more and more advantage of dual core processing. With AMD you already have the 64 bit covered, dual core is the next step. If you do video encoding dual core speeds the process way up and certain games, applications, and Windows Vista will be able to take advantage of multi-core systems.
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