Originally Posted by
Anteries
I think you're right anyone with any sense would wait, I didn't and have bought a core I5 2400 which hopefully arrives tomorrow. I hope the new AMD stuff is fantastic. Remember things are worth what people are willing to pay for them I don't think anyone should get too hung up on comparisons. all this upgrade fever is mostly marketing bs.
I mean if you look at the benchmarks, does it really matter whether a song takes 22 seconds to encode or 17 seconds? How often do you decide to do a complete VirusScan, while compressing a movie, while simultaneously numbercrunching a massive spreadsheet, whilst playing world of war craft. it's like we all must have eight cores just in case.