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==Processor==

I bought a Phenom 9650 several months ago when I built my current desktop. Really glad I did...It's a heck of a lot cheaper than Intel quad-core parts, even if it doesn't perform quite as well. I also turned out lucky in that I will very likely be able to swap it out for a Phenom II part eventually, when I finally feel the urge to upgrade. Oddly enough, though, I haven't yet found a task that truly taxes my CPU. I've got 8GB of RAM, so I've never really hit swap unless I forced the issue. Rather, my biggest performance issues come from Firefox, which does not seem to have been designed with multithreading as a serious possibility; It frequently becomes entirely unresponsive to input for several seconds at a time, and then hurriedly applies whatever input I'd provided, like there's some mutex or resource that even typing into this edit box has to wait on. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 05:39, 15 March 2009 (UTC)