I am still damn happy with my Q6600 I bought over a year ago and overlcocked to 3GHz. But I'm guessing you are looking for something newer.
--------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, DSinc <dx7...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Anthony, > Since I have updated 3 machines to Intel C2D procs, I am very happy. > Do not believe you need to go all the way to Itanium 7 devices. Seems > several here have had very good results with Itanium 5 devices/builds. > I plan to stay with C2D until someone can convince me otherwise..... :) > C2D just rocks so well here for me. But, I do NOT do anything special like > all the current "media" related activities. I am not into my PC controls my > whole house and everything I might wish to do. I am NOT HAL-centric..... > LOL! > Best, > Duncan > > > > Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> I need to upgrade my work computer to something more modern (which runs >> Win7 fine). >> >> What I'm like to do is move the mobo from my home machine to my office >> machine, so the new mobo would come to my home machine. >> >> This current machine has a Gigabit mobo and runs a dual core CPU 3.0 GHz. >> This machine gets a 5.5/7.9 on the WEI, so it handles Win7 just fine. >> The office machine is old, though. Pentium 4 3.6 GHz. >> So, what should I get for the home mobo? I'm no gamer, though I used to >> dream of such. I've been making lots if high-def videos, though, at 720p. >> I'd like to move to 1080p, if possible. >> >> All of the processor options are just mind boggling, it seems. I think I >> want to stay intel, so I'm not sure why....should I go with this i7 line >> cpus? I like Gigabytes mobos, so I'm thinking I'll stay in the line (I >> still have two PCs with Gigabyte mobos and both seem to run fine. >> >> So, where should I buy? I don't need top of the line, but I'm thinking of >> running Win7 64bit with at least 4 GB of ram. >> >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >>
