Thanks to all for answers on processors.

I would like to thank everybody, mainly Paul, then Bazzer, for the answers I
received to my questions about processors. I'm still far from a processor
expert, but the knowledge I gained here in very little time I couldn't have
obtained on the net unless I had spent weeks on research. I'm afraid I
wouldn't have done that.

It's sad, but magazines such as Tom's Hardware seem to always take for granted
that their readers have good basic knowledge of hardware. I'm afraid they lose
a lot of readers this way. 10 years ago, magazines took more pain to explain
the basics.

If Paul wanted to write a page on processors on his site, I'm sure many people
would pay a visit, mainly if there were pages on other pieces of hardwa
monitors, power supplies, etc. No testing, just the basic concepts. But it's
important to keep it simple. Concentrating on the Athlon 64 3500+ has helped
me to learn notions that would also apply to other AMD processors.

Thanks to all again. I received a good demonstration of the usefulness of usenet.