Looking under the hood of a used pc.

[thwang99]

I'm not sure how good a deal that is but don't get a FX-55, get a few steps lower. The performance difference might be 25% which is unnoticible. Instead of 60 seconds to process say a large MPEG file, it might take 65 or 70 seconds.

Get an Athlon also consider that. Make sure buss speed is high, etc.

The price goes up expotentially for the current top of the line processor.

Liek say there's AMD 1 to 5, prices might be:
price speed
1: $900 500
2: $500 480
3: $300 450
4: $250 425
5: $200 410

So, not worth it to get top of the line. Besides you don't need it. Everything else about the system looks fine, though I'd get a WD raptor 74gig, those SCREAM, and will make a noticible diff to your performance! Esp with large databases. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] - Tony