Re: quad cores?

["Jonathan Arnold" <user=619@nabble.blu.org>]

 Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> On Monday 01 October 2007 09:40:05 am Stephen Adler wrote: 
>> What motherboard/chip set are you using? 
> 
> Base Board Information 
>         Manufacturer: Intel Corporation 
>         Product Name: D975XBX2 
> 
>> I just looked up the pricing of the cpu's at my local PC shop... 
>> 
>> http://www.tcponline.com/Processor_Intel.htm
>> 
>> Is the core 2 quad 3GHz at $1.2K worth it? 
> 
> I'd have to emphatically say hell no. 
> 
>> Or should I get the Core 2 
>> Dual 3GHz, 1333Mhz FSB going for $0.3K. my rule of thumb is that most of 
>> the bottle necks are in memory bandwidth so its worth putting money into 
>> the max memory bandwidth you can get. 
> 
> The sweet spot right now seems to be the Q6600 or so, which is a 2.4GHz 
> quad-core for somewhere around $300 as well (yep, $278 @ newegg). I'd 
> probably go with that. 
>