is my processor awful

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#1 mastershake575
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ive heard that a celeron D is awful for games and i was wondering should i upgrade because the only games ill be playing on it is games from late 2006 and 2005 so far i have a gig of ram and is probaly going to upgrade to a 6800GT or a 7600GT
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#2 andres_nk1
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men, if you use your computer for gaming, you have serius Issues, change procesor and GPU and you will see a very Very very very big big big difference
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#3 maulty
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if money is not a huge issue then i would just get a new comp, i used to have an intel celeron at 1ghz. about 2 weeks ago i bought a new comp with an amd athlon x2 3800....HUGE performance jump. it plays games like warcraft 3, starcraft, empires, age of empires with no problems at all.
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#4 quaddrag500
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ive heard that a celeron D is awful for games and i was wondering should i upgrade because the only games ill be playing on it is games from late 2006 and 2005 so far i have a gig of ram and is probaly going to upgrade to a 6800GT or a 7600GT mastershake575
if anything at least get a pentium D most people will say that there not great for gaming but the one i have runs doom 3 and quake maxed at 1280x1024 just fine
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#5 darksdowdo
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i got one in one of my other pc witha  6600 vannelia and it runs just fine.....
i can put games on like fear with no hitching or trying for waiting for the cpu to catch up and render the stuff.... bf2 and bf2142 it gets a lil slow when u throw on settings but anything in med it can handle fine.... oblivion is fine 2 outside is a lil catcheeee somethimes but it catchs up fast...

as its usieng 3.2ghz one

and it only rune 18 in the backround in process