New PC stuff.

[Richard_Rahl]

Originally Posted by Magus

If you see what he comes up with you don't need to worry about the energy bill. And they won't be idle, just have to set your affinity right.

And I kind of love the fact I have a quadcore right now with the new Adobe CS4, and HD video projects in premiere and after effects.

lol I just meant with that, that he may get more performance per watt with a dual core. A 30 Watt TDP difference is a lot for just a marginal speed difference a quad core offers in practice. Programs like CPU control spread processes over the cores, but because threads cannot be split up will this not be optimal. Only few Windows programs do multithread in a way that all 4 cores are optimally used.

BTW, I love it how equally "loaded" my dual core cpus are when I use Ubuntu. Without additional programs etc.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Richard_Rahl

lol I just meant with that, that he may get more performance per watt with a dual core. A 30 Watt TDP difference is a lot for just a marginal speed difference a quad core offers in practice. Programs like CPU control spread processes over the cores, but because threads cannot be split up will this not be optimal. Only few Windows programs do multithread in a way that all 4 cores are optimally used.

BTW, I love it how equally "loaded" my dual core cpus are when I use Ubuntu. Without additional programs etc.

I love how I can install Windows out of the box without too much problems. I shouldn't start about Slack and Gentoo. (I mean if you are going to use linux, why not do it good and make a minimal install and download/compile everything yourself!) Oh and yeah this is a obvious trolling attempt. Just like yours was. And with all the respect to you guys i've just been getting more and more irritated of all the linux users telling them their OS is so much better when in fact it still is a OS only used by fanatics and should stay that way. Sure there are some decent unix based OS's like OS X. But that is just because it was really made only for the average consumer. And I like what Ubuntu does but it still isn't nowhere close to being any consumer friendly, any small mistake and you can be choking in your terminal

Oh and I do have linux experience so i'm not talking shit that much, maybe a little bit

Good night.

And yeah AKA, Wait for i7 to make a big upgrade ;)

[Slaymate]

Well I wouldn't buy the Intel Mobo, I would buy the X48 chipset, probably an Asus or MSI mobo.

I would buy a quad core, more and more games are utilizing the extra power. FarCry 2 is a perfect example. You should really consider the Q9550 over the Q9400. It costs a little more but the 12MB of L2 cache is a nice little performance boost for demanding applications.

Personally I would wait a few weeks before upgrading. Prices will probably drop when the X58 chipset and the i7 cpu are released.