he did say its max when doing something visual so I take it by that the system when just running desktop is idle?
TBH if you need better performance its time to save up for a new system . A skt 478 system is not likely to be able to keep up nowadays
A nice dual core AMD backbone will not cost the earth nowadays
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/201692 here is a basic dual core bundle
how much does the guy want for the chip?