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Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by gghartman, 2010/05/19.

  1. 2010/05/19
    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    now that the intel i3, i5 and i7 chips are out full force i was wondering what is the best way to go. we have the quad core which there isnt many things that utilize it yet, we have the dual core 2 which is pretty much the standard and now the i series chips.

    i do a lot of selling to home based users and this time of the year a lot of laptops to parents buying graduation gifts for there kids for when they start college in the fall.

    am just looking for some opinions and thoughts of the processors and which areas are best for each one.

    thanks....greg
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    The same old rules apply. The bigger the number the faster the chip. The faster the chip the quicker etc etc bla bla bla. Then there's the old rule about how the price goes up with each.....

    I still use a P4 at the house and it does more then I need...On the other hand - parts of me would kill for a new i anything...

    You have to also factor in the needs of the user to help decide if the cost of an i chip is worth it..

    But I hear the i's will kick the rear end of the Core/Quad 2 chips....
     
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    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    Steve R Jones

    i also would love to have the i7 have one client that brought one for his gaming and he loves the heck out of it. wont let anyone touch that machine.

    i am using an athlon x64 3800+ with 2g on xp pro and like you it does everything i want it to do but would also love a i series machine just for fun. maybe one day.

    most systems i get have been the dual core 2 now the 2.93ghz and they are really good machine for the majority of my clients and the price is right.

    the i series beat the quad and the dual very interesting.

    thanks for the info......greg
     
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    hawk22

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    for my 2 cents worth I am a AMD man and therefore my choice would be the Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition 3.2 Ghz 6MB L3 cache and using a good performance motherboard this baby can be unlocked to a X4. And best of all it sells for around $100.-
    Best buy for money would be the AthlonII X4 630 for Motherboard socket AM2 / AM2+ / AM3, 2.8 Ghz at around $118.- this gives great upgrade potential.
     
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    Christer

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    I've recently completed a build with a Core i7 860 which supports Hyper-Threading. Running Auslogics Disk Defrag, nothing else at that time, CPU utilization was a mere 10-20 % but all four cores and five threads were active, only three threads passive. Running the defragger in the background while working in an Office program would probably utilize the processors potential. This was on Windows 7 professional (64-bit).
     
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    Hi Steve,
    The Tom's Hardware testing is very thorough but I can't understand his testing result for the quad core on the Photoshop test. I recently upgraded from an Athlon 64 x 2 to a Phenom ll x 4 and some image processes were speeded up dramatically. For instance. in the blending of a moderately large panorama the blending step was reduced, (all figures approximate!) from 1 minute 30 secs to about 25 secs.
    The patch tool has become almost immediate instead of 5-6 secs, and in steps like making selections, using the eraser etc, the changes being made now follow the cursor instead of lagging. I don't think the test quoted was designed to be used on Photoshop as my change to quad core has made dramatic speed increases in image processing.

    Roger
     
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