Winterlight, Really appreciate your opinions and insights. Bottom line, it seems, is that you are saying I won't really see a large increase in performance from a 5 year old system? Did I just purchase wisely in 2009? :) I purchased the core i7 920 ($280) and an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 motherboard ($350) for what seemed like an arm and a leg at the time. At that time, it was an upgrade from a core 2 duo E6750 and Abit IP35 Pro ($360 total for mb & cpu) and I saw a significant performance increase.
As a for instance, when running Ripbot264, the CPU usage is pegged at 100% for several hours. This makes other programs sluggish and slow to respond. I was looking for some "relief" in this area. Would waiting for the "next big thing" help, and how long is the wait? It seem like the next generation is always "6 months away" or "next quarter!" Again, thanks for the info. Much appreciated. Some comments inline below. And the "muscle machine" comment might have a nugget of truth! :) Jim Jim Maki [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Winterlight > The answer to your questions are ... it depends. It always does! > That said for gaming get the Haswell, but if you do a lot of rendering or > encoding then nothing is as fast as six cores. > > If you run a six core you are stuck with a Ivy Bridge Chipset ... for the time > being. And that means an older chipset. So it sounds as if my options are limited, which helps with the decision making process! But sacrifices would have to be made. > I use my extra ram for a 24KGB RAM Disk to do large file HD Video editing, Sounds like I can save some money on RAM. > Intel CPUs and chipset are as reliable as they come. Motherboards at the > high end.. I paid near $400 for my Asus...are always going to be well built > workstation boards just stay with the usual high end manufactures and it is > difficult to make a mistake. As I said above, I purchased a high end ASUS and have been very happy and had no problems.
