On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote: >> >> I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: >> it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price. >> >> A quick look at what was available in April suggested >> an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm ) ; Phoronix said it works with Kernel 3.2 >> + an Intel Z77 mobo (I usually buy ASUS) & that power/watt was excellent. > > > The best performance for money is the i5 2550K CPU. If you want the > integrated graphics because you don't have an actual graphics card, you can > go for the 2500K. > > This is a Sandy Bridge CPU. I normally don't recommend the Ivy Bridge ones > because they run hotter, so changing the clock multipliers isn't as fun as > with Sandy Bridge. > >
Actually according to the link Florian linked here[1], AMD is doing extremely well regarding price/performance. Unless you want a Celeron or a Pentium. i5s do rate up there, though... these tests are also from Windows. [1] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html
