I still have a Pentium 4 computer I built over five years ago. \u00a0It’s a little sluggish, but since I never pay the premium for top-of-the-line CPUs I figured maybe I could grab a cheap upgrade — after all, Socket 478 processors became obsolete at least four years ago.<\/p>\n
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