[MBZ] computer question (what to buy)

2008-05-21 Thread Gary Hurst
ok, tom has virused up his P4, and now insists on a new machine.  so rusty
bought him one.  naturally, i started crying when i heard about this, as i
am still on P4 and G4 standard.  sadly, the last p4 i bought was a 2.6mhz a
number of years ago, so i ah clueless as to what to get today.

seems there are two identically priced options in the world today:

quad core Q6600
dual core E8500

for the life of me, i can't figure out which of these i should get.  anyone
have any opinions?
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Re: [MBZ] computer question (what to buy)

2008-05-21 Thread Harry Watkins
Consumers Reports covered computers recently, if you're interested, I'll
feed their info to you.

I put a lot of stock in what they say, others don't.

Let me know.

Harry

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 ok, tom has virused up his P4, and now insists on a new machine.  so rusty
 bought him one.  naturally, i started crying when i heard about this, as i
 am still on P4 and G4 standard.  sadly, the last p4 i bought was a 2.6mhz a
 number of years ago, so i ah clueless as to what to get today.

 seems there are two identically priced options in the world today:

 quad core Q6600
 dual core E8500

 for the life of me, i can't figure out which of these i should get.  anyone
 have any opinions?
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Re: [MBZ] computer question (what to buy)

2008-05-21 Thread dave walton
quad core Q6600 - 2.4ghz
dual core E8500 - 3.16 Ghz

The dual core will be faster as desktop unless you want to multi task
and run programs that can run multi threaded or if you are running
some kind of server application or games. You always want at least 2
cores because the operating system (especially Windows) will need 1
just for itself. Having more than 2 cores on a desktop is of little
use unless you are running software that can take advantage of them.
Of course all this will change within the next few years. If you want
to run voice recognition, then having more than 2 cores will help.

-Dave Walton

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ok, tom has virused up his P4, and now insists on a new machine.  so rusty
 bought him one.  naturally, i started crying when i heard about this, as i
 am still on P4 and G4 standard.  sadly, the last p4 i bought was a 2.6mhz a
 number of years ago, so i ah clueless as to what to get today.

 seems there are two identically priced options in the world today:

 quad core Q6600
 dual core E8500

 for the life of me, i can't figure out which of these i should get.  anyone
 have any opinions?
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