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Media & Art / Re: Few new ones
« on: Wednesday, December 01, 2010, 19:13:21 PM »
Yeah I'm working on it
Should have a Canon 60D by the end of the month.

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That really doesn't make that much difference. You might see some speed increment in highly multi-threaded applications, but I hardly think that it would make the i7's that much faster. Sure, the Core i7 is ~10-20% faster clock-for-clock than the Phenom II's, but the Phenom II's can also level with them in some areas. Basically, I would be paying around four times more for a rather small increase in overall system performance. Therefor, when I have the choice between an AMD Phenom II X6 for $180 or an Intel i7 for $880, I think the AMD Phenom II would win my choice every time.
Sure, the i7 might be more elegant, but you have to pay for such elegance. And since I'm a rather poor college student, I don't think an $880 processor would be in my budget.
I won't use it all that much for video processing, but I will use it for compiling code, running virtual machines, and college related projects. I kinda wish I had bought more ram, though. Overall, it is still a huge step over what I had. Windows 7 with only 2GB of ram was starting to slowly kill me. Everything now is more responsive, and I don't find myself waiting for the hard drive to swap out memory anymore. Simply put, I'm happy with my AMD hardware, and it was a whole lot cheaper than a 6-core Intel part. I'm hoping this upgrade will last at least until I graduate in about 3 and a half years. I know my old AMD Opteron 165 lasted me about 4 years, and hopefully this one will do the same.