Phenom II X2 550 BE

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My AMD socket 754 2800+ has a hard time with SL. It had 2 Gig Ram and a GF FX5200 video card.
I was running Vista then.
I am not the only one that has problems with SecondLife.
I do have a large cache size and sometimes is does appear to "calm down" later on.
Sorry, I have Win7, forgot to mention it.

Sorry I'm jumping in kinda late here but I just got a good am2+ board for pretty cheap I saw this thread on the Phenom II chip, which I have considered, since I'm running a single core athlon 64 right now.

Anyway I have a GF fx5200 card as well as a 6200 and a 8 series and I must say that the 5200 chokes on shader 2 code really bad. It's not to bad at shader 1.0 stuff but not too hot. If you are having trouble with Second Life it probably isn't your cpu it's probably the gpu. I think second life recomends a 6600 which probably means it uses shader 2 code.

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Because starting up a multi core processor is like starting up jet fighter, the thing goes whizz, beep, shhhhh, whirrrrr!

I started up my amiga and agnus and denise were all pissed off because paula was making too much noise. Sweeeeet!

I wonder if anyone has ever made anime versions of the girls.

I wonder if I'm thinking about this a bit too much.

I need at least a dual core athlon II, but next purchase will probably be a new video card. preferably a geforce 9 series or better. I got most games required cpu but not the video card.

with psus its the 12v capability that really counts nowadays. I saw a 350watt a while ago (forgot the name) but it had 22 amps on the 12v line. The quality of the componants makes a huge difference in psus though. a cheap 500w might be worse than a 400w name brand, you get what you pay for.

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There are some new emulators I think for wii and ps2 that multithread and can use multi cores. I think emulators are one app that should benefit from multicores alot.