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Best use of 200 dollars
So I have 200 dollars left of student loan money.. I want a new processor (or processor + Motherboard (if I go AMD).
Right now my rig is: P4 630 prescott (used and abused) 4gb Kingston Ram XFX GeForce 9800GT 512mb PCI-E 320 GB Maxtor and 500gb WD hard drives. XFX 630i MATX motherboard. Coolermaster 500 watt powersupply. What is the best bang for 200 bucks for an upgrade. I'm playing Need for speed Shift and its halfway quick (don't know the FPS), and Assassins Creed runs well despite not having a Dual Core Proc like it says is required. (I'll load up the games and get FPS readings.)
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That's a tough one...if you sold your current mobo and cpu im sure you could go with a nice AMD quad core and a decent mobo...i'd recommend sticking to DDR2 though and save whats left...
You could always just buy another CPU and stick with your current board...but whats the fun in that 
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Could get x3 720 or a new Athlon II like 620 and a decent amd motherboard if you'd like.
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Hooker and an 8-ball?
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Thatd be one cheap hooker.
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I get 12-20fps in Assassin's creed, and 16-22FPS in Need for speed:shift according to fraps.
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No moar chat :(
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new cpu
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I was looking at either:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...474&CatId=2417 (dual core) or http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...399&CatId=2417 (quad core)
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PC Gamer
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Well, according to this benchmark i'm looking at says:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115036 is the fastest non extreme edition CPU out there.
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PC Gamer
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Ah! and Frys has it! (surprisingly, their out of stock with everything else)
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