Nope, dual-core isn't an issue for these machines. Thanks for the advice, Sempron 64 3000+ will be ordered shortly.

-Dave

Thanks again for the feedback. So it looks like if I don't want to mess with undervolting, I want to stick with socket 754 and something that supports CnQ, GeForce 6100 or other brand chipset. But the Athlon 64 90nm chips aren't available in socket 754, so if I want the performance of Athlon 64 I ha...

For some reason I read elsewhere that Nvidia chipsets seem to be power hungry. The motherboards I was looking at use the ULi M1689 chipset, not sure how this chipset does in terms of power consumption, anyone know? While I certainly don't necessarily "need" more power than a 1.4GHz Sempron, having t...

I'm looking to upgrade an Athlon XP+1700 (desktop PC) and Duron 800 (HTPC pc w/2+ tuners) with modest CPU power upgrades (both have enough power for what they are used for, but faster is always nice) and something that will bring idle power consumption down as low as possible. Right now each of thos...

Got it, thanks!

Do you have the PDF saved? If so, would you mind emailing it to me?

Thanks!

Anyone else having problems downloading the PDF? It seems that www.homepower.com is misconfigured.