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Originally Posted by Aimee Wilbury

I'm planning to upgrade my computer sometime, and I'm gonna be getting a decent GPU (I'm a bit of a gamer -- no more crummy integrated thing!) and a spare hard drive.

Currently I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ which is which is 2200.0 MHz (no overclocking for me).

I've been considering replacing that with a dual-core processor, mainly for faster media encoding, I don't really have any problems with the current one in games. A quad-core is unnecessary right now, and a bit out of my budget. I'm gonna be sticking with an AMD.

Would a dual-core processor be worth the money?

Thank you.

I'd wait until you can get a quad-core and run a 64bit OS. They're getting cheap, and a new 32bit proc will be outdated in a couple years.