I'm looking to build a new machine to hold me over until multi-core gets mainstream. I was at Newegg looking at some of the cheaper Shuttles/Biostars that take a Socket A chip. How will the Sempron 3000(?) ish machines compare to, say, my AMD Athlon running at 1.2GHz? I mostly do web/email/dev stuff on Linux, but I'm likely to go with at least 1 gig RAM since I'm usually opening a ton, ton, ton of apps. I don't play games at all.
Anyway, I realize this is a pretty general question but I'm trying to get up to speed a little more on here. I'm not really a speed junky, I just don't want to buy a stupid setup .
Anyway, I realize this is a pretty general question but I'm trying to get up to speed a little more on here. I'm not really a speed junky, I just don't want to buy a stupid setup .