Countdown for a new system

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Skybird

But a 500 GB drive for 50 bucks still is even cheaper. And I do not need even that much. I simply do not need it, I do not buy new games in truckload amounts anymore.

Same here. I download a huge amount of music these days, but that's what I have an external drive for.

How is that? None of the games I plan to use is new and supports multiple cores. As I said, I have almost no interest in new stuff. So I think I am better off with investing into two cores with for example 3.3 GHz than into 4 cores with 2.8 GHz. Since my sims use one CPU only anyway, that leaves the game running with 3.3 instead of 2.8 GHz, and background processes on the other CPU. Core 3 and 4 would be of no use for me, or not!?

Interesting questions. I think I'd like to have as many cores as I can afford, but the GHz question puzzles me as well.