Quote Originally Posted by ninja9578 View Post
graphics card, which tend to have between 4 and 16 cores.
As for the Xbox power cord: eBay.
Way behind the times my friend. High-end cards these days have hundreds. My next laptop should have about 250 (2x126).


I've had this PC for a while now, and I need a processor, preferably dual core so as to run games at a good rate without a slide-show.

The motherboard I have is an Abit Nf7 i believe. The processor I have right now is an AMD Athlong XP 1500+ ( It is 1.3 GHZ ). For the processor I need something that is cheap and not too expensive, and fast. Cheap and fast. Recommendations?
Buy a new and modern PC. A fast processor will make almost no difference:

Graphics are not done on the CPU unless your graphics cards are fried (as mine are on this machine), and even a powerful processor will give tiny framerates (I get about 5 frames a second).

Secondly, any modern hardware would be incompatible with your existing machine.

Thirdly, even if the hardware was compatible, you would have so many bottlenecks elsewhere that the improvement would be worthless because you wouldn't be able to take advantage of it.

Upgrading single components is something only worth considering on very high end systems, where the other components are fast enough to not be a bottleneck. For an old system it's not worth it, and you're far better off buying a new one, in terms of the performance increase/cost ratio.