[Dream] Quad core or "just" Dual core?

[Doofus McFluoro]

YEs there are other considerations... throughput... your processor and
memory are only as fast as the bus they ride on... check that if you buy a
superfantasmic system... that your mboard is as good as you can get.
otherwise its all for lunch..

On 2/27/07, Phrank Harris <malenkylizards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I assume you meant 2048 MB, and not that you have over two terabytes of
> ram?  In which case, you're either compiling the human genome solely to beat
> the previous record, or are seriously compensating for something.  :)
>
> I don't know what your computer needs are, but personally, I'm hoping that
> my current setup will last me long enough for a generation or two of
> computers (that's, what, five months right?  :)).  It doesn't really make a
> lot of economical sense to buy the latest new upgrade the moment it comes
> out, unless you're particularly, really desperate for it and willing to
> pay the difference.  I figure that if you can wait until you're past the
> "starting to push it" phase and into the "If I were to open a wordpad file
> my computer would pee on me" phase, you'll find that the multiple-core chips
> were twice as much and now cost about as much as a couple of matinee movie
> tickets plus popcorn - instead of "pay the rent or buy a new chip?" it's
> "see snakes on a plane ii or buy a new chip?"
>
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