Thanks for everyones opinions. After some extensive reading the issues seems to be these. He presently has an Intel 2.4 socket 478 processor which I am informed is "reliable for games" and he doesn't have any issues when using his system to encode videos to dvd's providing the eventual size is kept under 4GB due to using Win98. It has reached the point that if he spends £800 on a new computer, he may as well go the whole way and pay an extra £300 or so to for dual-processing.
The problem arrises when looking at which dual-processor to use. If you, like I have, read through all the various reviews. It just gets confusing, it probably wouldn't be so but for the fact that Intel seems to have secretly included DRM on the chip, which throws up the question what else haven't they informed possible buyers about. Not to mention the obvious question: Does it matter? To be honest, I don't know and neither does my friend
Another possible thing seems to be judging from this review
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2005...sstest-28.html that the Intel systems aren't too stable. The one thing that stands out however, is that out of all the Intel chips available, in single threaded mode which most games today seem to use the Intel processor is the slowest
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...e=expert&pid=7
Needless to say, I am confused as which to sugest which is annoying, as he expects me to sort the wheat from the chaff so to speak and come up with a solution
If anyone has the time can they read through the reviews above and let me know which processor you would choose?
Thank You!