"* * Chas" wrote in message
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Tom's Hardware ran a boatload of CPU tests, comparing Athlon XP to
Sempron to AMD 64 to Pentium: much depends on whether you are gaming,
doing office work (in which case the XP3200 is fine), doing
audio/video,
etc:


http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/...pu_charts_2005
/index.html

Newegg has only 7 Socket A CPUs still listed for sale:


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0343+70001012&
N=2010340343+70001012&Submit=ENE&Subcategory=343&O rder=price



Make that zero Socket As left.

I thought he left it a bit late to build a new socket 7 system, but he could
be using second hand parts.

He doesn't say what kind of office tasks he is doing, but anything from a
1Ghz CPU will work fine for word processing etc. Of course if he is doing
CAD or video editing he will need a more powerful CPU

BTW when posting a long URL, enclose it in URL thusly, and the link will
work properly.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Order=pri ce