Hello! I need an upgrade, I currently have a Celeron D. I was thinking about a Pentium D 805 but I've heard alot of good things about AMD - such as how they're faster and run cooler (my Celeron gets pretty HOT - I had to take the side of my case off!).
So I was wondering about some recommendations on what I should do. Go with the Pentium D or go AMD? I need to keep my PCIe graphics card, my two Sata 3gb/s hard drives, and my three sticks of ddr2 533 ram. I realize that an amd mobo/proc combo would be around the same price as the lowest core 2 duo - but I'm willing to give up maximum speed (which I don't really need) for stability and smaller temps!
I was looking at the AMD sempron 64 2400+, athlon 64 3200+ and 3800+ (of course any other recommendations would be great). As for motherboards, I'm completely confused on which am2 motherboard to get - if I go with amd.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
So I was wondering about some recommendations on what I should do. Go with the Pentium D or go AMD? I need to keep my PCIe graphics card, my two Sata 3gb/s hard drives, and my three sticks of ddr2 533 ram. I realize that an amd mobo/proc combo would be around the same price as the lowest core 2 duo - but I'm willing to give up maximum speed (which I don't really need) for stability and smaller temps!
I was looking at the AMD sempron 64 2400+, athlon 64 3200+ and 3800+ (of course any other recommendations would be great). As for motherboards, I'm completely confused on which am2 motherboard to get - if I go with amd.
Any help is greatly appreciated!