I have been happily using an AMD Athlon XP overclocked to a 3200+ with a Gig of RAM and an ATI all Wonder 9700 Pro for a few years now. I have all IDE drives, AGP video card and good OCZ platinum DDR RAM (2 x 512) and some stable generic DDR 400 (2x512).
I am not all that into games, I just don't have time, but I do game a little. I also edit videos and pictures of my kid, vacations, that kind of thing. I recently bought Adobe Premier elements 2.0 and I can't use it because it needs SSE2 instruction set on the processor.
That is where you guys hopefully come in. I need a motherboard and CPU that have SSE2, hopefully still has an AGP slot and hopefully takes DDR rather than DDR2. I can wait until perhaps June (if you know something about price cuts or whatever...) but past that I will go nuts not being able to use the Adobe software.
I don't want to spend more than say $350 max on the CPU and motherboard, even less if possible. Again, ideally, I would like to be able to use my DDR and my AGP card.
What I need is: advice on getting the most bang for those 350 or less dollars on either platform, Intel or AMD. AMD Athlon 64's and later support SSE2 and, of course, Intel has done so forever.
thanks,
B.
I am not all that into games, I just don't have time, but I do game a little. I also edit videos and pictures of my kid, vacations, that kind of thing. I recently bought Adobe Premier elements 2.0 and I can't use it because it needs SSE2 instruction set on the processor.
That is where you guys hopefully come in. I need a motherboard and CPU that have SSE2, hopefully still has an AGP slot and hopefully takes DDR rather than DDR2. I can wait until perhaps June (if you know something about price cuts or whatever...) but past that I will go nuts not being able to use the Adobe software.
I don't want to spend more than say $350 max on the CPU and motherboard, even less if possible. Again, ideally, I would like to be able to use my DDR and my AGP card.
What I need is: advice on getting the most bang for those 350 or less dollars on either platform, Intel or AMD. AMD Athlon 64's and later support SSE2 and, of course, Intel has done so forever.
thanks,
B.
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