I know exactly what he means and that is my reason for getting I7
over the I5. For 80 bucks I get Hyperthreading which appears on the
task manager as a core. So a Quadcore with HT would appear on Task
manager as 8 CPUs.. which is cool, and worth the extra 80 bucks to
me... and it is useful when video encoding.
Duncan sometimes you forget that this is a Hardware group for tech
heads and nerds and performance tweakers who don't give a damn about
cost to value. Not the coupon clipping housewife geriatric list who
can't see why they need to upgrade their PIIIs running Win98.
So yeah, 8 cores on the taskmanager is cool man! And a good enough
reason for me.
At 04:04 PM 9/28/2009, you wrote:
Zul,
I know you are a heavy user, but please explain the "8 threads in the
task mangler." I am confused. Why is this important or even germain
to Winterlight's question? How is this "work-in-my-home" related?
Best,
Duncan
Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
Actually if you look at performance per watt ratings the i5 does
better. I just bought an i7 so I could see 8 threads in task
manager.
------Original Message------ From: Winterlight Sender:
[email protected] To: [email protected]
ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [H] I5 I7 ?? Sent: Sep
28, 2009 11:35 PM
My 2nd PCs motherboard has apparently died so I am looking at a
upgrade, motherboard, ram and CPU. The I5 is the cheapest at 200 but
there is a 800 series I7 for 80 bucks more... why wouldn't I want to
go with the I7>
It is getting so you need to take a class to figure out Intel /AMD
CPU lines.
