On 6/22/2010 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... Will it be the same when I go for a core i5? I use that box for virtualization as well (vmware and kvm), so maybe it would also help to not only change cpu but also add 2 cores (going quadcore). I just want to hit the sweet spot if that's possible. And I'd like to hear any pros and cons if you would like to share.
I updated from a Q6600 to an i7 860 recently. Not amazing speed wise, but I can run 8 threads and use more than 8GB of RAM. The RAM was the big thing for me. If you're planning to do a lot with VMs I'd suggest at least an extra drive if not more if you can swing it. Overall I'd say you're not going to notice much speed unless you're very CPU bound.
kashani
