I added a 2.8Ghz 6 core i5 to the farm this week.
( http://www.buckosoft.com/bsac/meta/ )
$500 including a nice 23" HD monitor.


I expected it to be slighty faster than my 3.4 Ghz i7 (4 core/8 thread)
and 50% faster than my (3) 3.2Ghz 4 core i5s.

No.

It is 50% faster than my i7 and more than twice as fast as my other i5(s).

I'm not complaining ( :) ) but sheesh. Shouldn't intel call this an i6
or something?  Clearly it is a newer/faster breed than the other boxes
that have an i5.  It seems that intel is really underselling themselves
here.

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dik
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