Thanks All....Yeah, sorta good news.
As I am a luddite re: building my own box; not really a DIY dude, really so I hadda take the word of the guy at the shop and he assured me this was faster than my previous AMD chip which was 3.75 Ghz. Turns out this one is 3.0...sigh so it is a bit slower, at least it's seeming so. Going to the benchmark page after this to test against what has gone before me. I had to accept a Dell tower..never use Dell product as had a bad early experience with it but the more modern Dell seems better. Only thing is when I originally got the AMD box in 2010 I was able to install Imagine3D and use it easily...now my box tells me I'm missing the same .dll as it was reporting before the CPU meltdown and after a reformat to get rid (I thought) of a problem infection. I'd had a problem with viri due to dirty contact with a member when I was a Mod ar Rendo and thought a fresh install of the O/S would fix that but it (the .dll) is still not there...sigh, so still no Imagine and access to my hundreds of gigs of models I made in Imagine...sigh...Thought a new system HDD would solve that problem. Nope. Running the original HDD as a slave so managed to keep everything, but with messed up road signs as I calls em.
