Nekar Xenos wrote:

> Core i7 980X Extreme Edition
> *drool*

http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=ITOA06ZGW



Drool all you want, you can't afford it. ;-)

Then again, several of the benchmarks I've looked at have the 2-core 
Core i3 chips at the top of the table, with the 6-core EE chip several 
seconds slower. (Multithreaded, MUCH?)

The real question, of course, is whether the triple-channel RAM (which 
makes the motherboard 120% more expensive) is actually worth it... This 
seems to vary by benchmark.

I wonder how long it will take for hexacore to become cost-effective? 
(Or how long before software starts using it - most software I've seen 
is still doggedly single-threaded!)

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