At 03:59 PM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
Wonder how many of you have read this article:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1839/
Author makes me think. We have these dual core CPU's but are they
worth it NOW?
---SNIP---
All depends on what you want to use it for. For now, games aren't
really benefiting all that
much, though that may be short term view (~1 year?). If you're into
vid encoding, folding,
3D rendering, etc. multi-core setups are a Godsend.
Personally, I invested my recent upgrade money into a X1900XT and
kept my single-core
S-754 Athlon64 Venice (@ 2.7GHz). I've stopped heavy-duty DiVX
encoding (figured it isn't
worth the time and effort compared to just slamming in a couple of
400GBs for DVD ISOs)
and that was the main drive behind my CPU upgrades for the last ~5
years. A single-core
Venice @ 2.7GHz isn't anything to laugh at, even with the arrival of Core 2.
Of course, to each his own :)
--
JW
