In general I agree, although it seems like the quad-core stuff from AMD competes very well as you scale out on the number of apps you are running. My thinking is that if you run a local dev environment with db and app servers and your dev tools, those things will take advantage of all the cores. But the sweet spot is just what you said, maybe an X6300/X6400 OCd, which I hear is very easy to do:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2802&p=4 On 12/2/06, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to chime in, > > The Intel QX6700 handily trounces the AMD Quad Core in most tests. > > http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIzMyw2LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== > > I actually don't think we will be getting any real multi-threaded apps > that we would use everyday for a while yet. > > For my purposes the best processor right now seems to be the Dual Core > X6800, but you can't seem to go wrong with the Dual Core X6600 and up > either. > > The new Intel chips are just wicked fast :) > > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221618 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
