I'm thinking of buying an off-the shelf PC for my office needs. I don't
have big needs there, but I want to get my stuff moved over quick.
I see Best Buy has an HP with this AMD Athlon™ II X4 Quad-Core Processor
inside. Runs at 2.7 GHz. Boy...this seems like a down grade of sorts,
as I'm running a P4 at 3.6 GHz now. But this HP has 6 GB ram and comes
with 64-bit Win7 home premium. That ought to be worth something, right?
I could reformat and load Win7 on this machine, but I'm then limited to
32-bit windows and thus can't even address extra memory. And no Win XP
mode, either.
I need to address this office PC situation quickly as the Windows on
here is hosed. This AMD ought to be good for non-gaming, non-HD moving
making, but perhaps heavy multitasking and probably running Matlab, right?
One advantage is with 4 cores I can run parallel matlab on 64-bit
windows and actually used the extra RAM. So that seems like a big plus.
Is the AMD a number-crunching pig compared to an Intel Quad Core?
