ok thank you guys for all your help but now im still debating lol I dont have a huge budget so id have to go with either E5300 ( newegg.ca says it clocks to 3ghz easy?) or AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Kuma.
Reviews on newegg say they both oc easy ( E5300 has one that says it clocked from 2.6 to 3.8? seems like ALOT to me.. but im still new to it lol) so does any one have personal experience with either of these cpus? i am willing to go a little higher in price but i dont want to go over 5-600$ but i also want the best performance for that budget as well
i wanna use it for media listening to music watching videos, ect. i plan on buying a bigger monitor/tv to use as monitor later on so something thats good for that. light gaming like i said in my previous post, nothing crazy i dont need a 200$ gpu and something thats better then what i have now lol right now i have an AMD Sempron 3000+ @1.80 GHz and 1.25 gigs of ram so anything is better then this but i want a nice, fast system. something OC'able as well nothing major depending on the stock speed of the cpu that is, i wouldnt go any higher then 3 ghz
EDIT: and i dont need a huge HD i have an external sata i wanna put in it aswell so i dont need like.. more then an 80? or 120 for vista and programs
You should go by what you can afford, what will fit in your budget. AMD is good, but Intel has the speed crown. AMD is usually cheaper than Intel, though.
Well, with your current budget being what it is, the E5200 is probably your best bet, since it can overclock better than the x2 7750. If you don't plan to overclock, the x2 7750 outperforms the E5200 at stock.