Well i bought a brand new Dell with a 1 year old CPU in it. 1 year after buying it (2 years old now), i upgraded it with a new CPU Q9550 and 4 more gigs of ram and a 1gig 9500gt vid card. I didnt have to change the motherboard or power supply. And now my computer has at least 2-3 more years of processing life with the software out and coming out. That is 4-5 years.
Upgrading is worth it, from my perspective at least, or else i would be stuck with a 2 Core system for the next 2-3 years, when the entire industry is very obviously switching to 4 cores as a standard and 64 bit operating systems.
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Briana Dawson
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Delta Nyak
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Of course AMD is a dead end . . .
06-29-2009 10:34
Her criteria was something that can be upgraded for the next 2-3 years, not being able to run nearly a dozen SL instances on a lesser machine than her $1000-1200 could get her. If i am not mistaken, that AMD stuff is a dead-end. No upgrade path. End of Line. It is also not faster than comparative Intel Quad CPUs. At least with an i7 she has the newest flag ship from Intel which will keep her machine upgradeable for the next few years like she wishes. The 2 fastest computer Systems in the world use AMD . . . System Name Roadrunner Site DOE/NNSA/LANL System Family IBM Cluster System Model BladeCenter QS22 Cluster Computer BladeCenter QS22/LS21 Cluster, PowerXCell 8i 3.2 Ghz / Opteron DC 1.8 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband Vendor IBM Application area Not Specified Installation Year 2008 Operating System Linux Interconnect Infiniband Processor PowerXCell 8i 3200 MHz (12.8 GFlops) System Name Jaguar Site Oak Ridge National Laboratory System Family Cray XT System Model Cray XT5 QuadCore Computer Cray XT5 QC 2.3 GHz Vendor Cray Inc. URL http://www.nccs.gov/computing-... Application area Not Specified Installation Year 2008 Operating System CNL Interconnect XT4 Internal Interconnect Processor AMD x86_64 Opteron Quad Core 2300 MHz (9.2 GFlops) Is AMD a dead end? Doesn't seem to be for the folks at IBM and Cray . . . I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that for the price, and these folks use a LOT of CPUs, AMD offers twice the bang for the buck . . . Is the i7 a great chip? Sure! is it worth the money? ($280 for the i7 920) - Debatable. Can you get a very satisfactory SL experience with a $90 AMD Quad? Absolutely, I do. Can you get a motherboard that would allow you to start with said $90 Opteron Quad and go up to the $245 Phenom II 955 Deneb? Absolutely! Is it worth spending $1000 on a gaming machine just to get an i7? Very debatable. |
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foehn Breed
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06-29-2009 11:51
Gods! It's so confusing, so many angles on hw!
That was my problem. I guess I should have said I have 1500. usd and still deciding, thanks all for the input, it has been helpful, honestly!  _____________________
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