Archive for the 'CPU (Central Processing Unit)' Category

Processor (CPU) for a Budget PC

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

The most important decision you’ll have to make when building a computer is how much power you want to give it. This is where the processor, or CPU, comes in. It is basically the brains of your computer. Because of the rapid development of processors, today’s low end CPUs will run all your needs just […]

LAN Party Processor (CPU)

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

For the processor, since this is a gaming rig, you’ll definitely want to pick up the new chips from Intel and AMD. For Intel, you’ll want to get a Prescott chip at 3.0 GHz (B000184BLU). Benefits of this new processor includes a 1MB L2 cache and support for SSE3. For AMD, you’ll want to pick […]