1. I would completely sell off my current lackluster AMD 939 based rig and buy all the components I would need to run the AMD Athlon 5000+ Black Edition from Newegg.
2. The name of AMD's next gen processor is Phenom.
1. Gut my 939 system, do the whole pass-down of those parts to one of my kids, sell off their old machine and get the rest I need to build my new PC with parts from NewEgg using my NewEgg creditline! Then somehow explain it all to my wife.... (in that order)
2. Phenom of course!
1. I would stop trying to decided between not upgrading my cpu, buying a regular AMD x2 6000, or a AMD black edition x2 5000. Then would find out if the CPU is really the bottleneck or if its the GPU and post my findings here and elseware with thanks to both [H]ardOCP and New Egg.
1. Build a kick-ass AMD-based gaming machine (OC-ed of course) to replace the piece of crap Intel CPU I have and reminisce about the good-old days of Athlon XP 2600+.
1. Right now, I'm currently in a bad financial position, so I've had to sell off my Dual Opteron 252 system to pay creditors. I spent roughly $4000 on it back in July 2005 (Tyan K8WE, LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X, 4GB RAM, seven 15kRPM SCSI drives). I got roughly $2000 of that back in the past month selling everything. Most of it will be to pay bills off, but I've kept my 8800GTS, PC Power & Cooling TC850SSI, and CD-RW/DVD-RW drives. Since I'll be receiving a large bonus check from work, that will also help pay some bills, but I'm also planning on building a newer (and less-expensive) gaming system. My budget is about $800. I have an inexpensive case selected and everything else in a Newegg Wish List. I have an AMD X2 4800+ on the list.
I'd love to be able to save $100 and pay off some more bills, so winning the Black Edition 5000+ would make my Christmas Holiday much better.
2. The next gen of AMD CPU will be named the Phenom.
1. If I won an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition CPU from Newegg and HardOCP, I would never do business with other online electronic retailer other than Newegg, and I would get all my hardware news only from HardOCP (in other words, nothing would change).
2. AMD Phenom
1. I would finally migrate from S939 and DDR1. The chip would be water cooled with a Swiftech Apogee waterblock, and with time dedication and tweaking it would hopefully eclipse my FX-60 by 200-300mhz!
2. Phenom
Really looking forward to hearing more about AMD Overdrive, looks great.
1. I’ve been wanting to do an upgrade from 939 to AM2, so this would be a great start to my project. All from NewEgg of course! The old box would go to the missus.
1. First I'd get a clean pair of pants becuse I'd soil myself from surprise since I never win anything, then I would have to build a new computer with it, the new processor that is not the pants