(16/06/2012 02:45 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Well, you're going to be using the computer for a few years.  And it's not like a couple of hundred is really that much - you can work that up in 1 day of work.

I mean in the past I always bought budget parts and stuff (my old PC was around $600 all up, including box and PSU and HDDs and everything), but now that I think about it, it'll probably one area I wouldn't mind splurging a bit, considering how much time I spend on my computer....  So yeah the next time I build one, Ill make it good.

But how often are you fully using the CPU?
Quite rarely for me.  An attractive factor with Ivy Bridge is the lower power draw, since the PC is on most of the day, but arguably idle pretty much all the time.
Apart from HT (i7) and more cores (well, only 2 more unless you go into Xeon territory), there actually isn't really any better CPU than mine.  Only really video encoding currently benefits from >4 threads at the moment - something I don't mind running in the background anyway.

(This post was last modified: 16/06/2012 07:26 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)