I'm considering building a new system, and was pricing out what would be in my price range. I started wondering which of these options might be better. They both even out to about the same price. Consider that time spent gaming and time spent in CPU-intensive apps is probably 50/50
Option 1: AMD Athlon 64 3500+, Radeon X1900XT 512MB
Option 2: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, Radeon X1800XT 512MB
Option 1: AMD Athlon 64 3500+, Radeon X1900XT 512MB
Option 2: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, Radeon X1800XT 512MB