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[Bootsiuv]

There actually is a dual core made by AMD now....but I'm not sure how it compares....once again, AMD names are a little confusing to me, and they rarely speak about their speed in good old reliable GHz, which I understand to an extent.

That's why i have never really gotten into AMD.

I had an AMD at 800 MHz that I bought used in '01, but went back to Intel in '04 (my current system), although it's a CELERON based processor, and I've heard a lot of negative feedback about those.

I do know that it runs circles around my last computer at 2.7 GHz.

That's sort of why I was wondering if my processor was still adequate....the new processor I'm currently looking at would actually appear to be slower than the one I have now, but I assume having two processors speeds things up considerably.