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AMD chips come in a few flavours. Socket A but this is pretty much obsolete,socket 754 which runs single channel memory and either an AMD64 chip a sempron chip(avoid unless budget is to tight) socket 939 flavour of choice runs either single core Amd 64 or dual core Amd64 x2 chips with dual channel memory and socket 940 which run opteron chips (not needed unless you run a server) and needs ecc ram

I would recommend socket 939 and depending on budget maybe the 3500 or the dual core 3800. Do not worry to much about bus speeds dude just go for what you can afford and spend max amount possible. Never penny pinch on a cpu come to a budget and make sure you spend the lot

Note also now there is the sempron64 which is a budget cpu with 64 bit extensions and can I believe be found for less than 40 quid