[keithwalton]

Zing small problem in your plan of it being a cheap! you cant buy just one of the cpu's you MUST buy them as a pair. Amd only sells them as a quad (2x dual core) bundle for not much more than an Fx cpu.

One of the american sites decided to split the bundles recently only for amd to turn round and say you do that, and you kiss goodbye to your warrenty from us.


Back to the technology tho, the boards are very expensive, you'll need a 700W+ psu as the system really does eat power like there is no tomorrow, you'll need at least 4 sticks of matched ram and you have to hope that your cpu works with its own ram and not the ram from the other cpu else performance falls through the floor.

And yes i've been championing vista for a while now of how much better it is at handling a dual core system than xp is.

Edit - Scan should not be selling these as single chips, they'll soon be saying hello to mr amd soon for doing so