so ive been looking to buy a better computer for a while now, and ive settled on most of the features. ive allready got a Geforce 9500 that arrived today, and im gonna stick to 2gb of ram, but i can't decide on a good processor or motherboard. i wanna keep the price reasonable as i still need to buy drives ect. but my main question is what would the performance difference be in a good quality single core processor, and a low-medium dual core one. i just wanna keep up with the new games coming out, but im not someone who cares about maxing all the settings out, just running smooth at around medium is fine for me. also i found that an athlon system would be a bit cheaper than a intel one, but im not too familler with thier nomenclature or anything, intel is easy, they just list the Ghz. any way the system im pretty close to now is
AMD athlon 64 dual core 4200 +
ECS A780GM-A motherboard
2GB ddr2 ram
GeForce 9500 gt 512mb
80gb hard drive
20x dvd-cd drive
okia 550w power supply with 6 pin connector
windows xp sp 2
all wrapped in a n APEVIA X-plorer case
grand total of around 400 usd.
any suggestions, additions? please help
thanks
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