Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
buy a new video card like the geforce 8800 series or radeon 2900 series. that will offer much much more improvement than upgrading CPUs to a higer end amd or Core 2 Duo.
Dunno where you got that 5k figure from. I can configure a top notch Dell Inspiron system with top of the line hardware for 2500. This is what I configured for 2500, which is extremely better than the aurora system.
Intel® Core 2 Duo T7400 (2.16GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)
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Current COre 2 Duos have SSE4 too. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115004
Just click on the Specifications Tab and scroll to multimedia instructions.
Well that article is just a preview with an inferior Yonah desktop mobo. Months later down the road, you get better motherboards and voila Yonah gets a performance boost. This article shows that Yonah is faster than its Opteron counterpart across the boards in all gaming benchmarks including...