Oct 30, 2006, 10:06 PM
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Don't buy into the hype. Wait for the quads to come out, and then get yourself a top of the line dual core after the prices plummet.
There is little software which can take advantage of this(or even will need to), and I doubt that the pending operating systems will be able to properly take advantage of them either.
Unless you plan on ripping a DVD with DeCSS, compute the amount of electromagnetic interference on a PCB, playing a game, and torrenting some files all at the same time. Then it might be useful.
For the most part, the only differences of any significance between the quad and dual cores will be the L2 cache size, and right now, it will be more than sufficient.
Wait for multi-core programming and architecture design to mature more, before investing in it.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by uacoop; Oct 30, 2006 at 10:08 PM.
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