Dude! Neal's getting a Dell!

Onkel Neal · 03-04-09, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by goldorak

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Intel Core i7-920 Processor, what's this? Does it supercede the Dual core/Quad core? Would this PC be a good choice?

Pros? Cons?

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Don't buy into the hype for the i7 processors.
These are workstation oriented processors, very fast in multithreaded applications BUT for gaming they are a marginal increase at best and in some cases they even go slower over the fastest Core 2 Quads. If all you do is rendering all day long then yes an i7 is your choice, but for gaming no. You'll just throw $$$$ for no benefit at all.
Take a Core 2 Quad at 3 GHz with 12 MB L2 cache + 4/8 GB of ddr2 ram and you'll have a computer that smokes pretty much everything out there.

Thanks, that's sort of the conclusion I came to. That, plus I didn't want to re-learn processors all over again.