Its becoming apparent to me that my not-even-two year old system is now no longer keeping up with the hideous amount of processor hungry apps I am throwing at it. Time for an upgrade!
I'm going to do something I've never done before, spend £750 on just a cpu and mobo upgrade (I'll be updating gfx when the dx10 gaming hits full swing).
I've been looking at the Intel Quadcore's on eBuyer. You can get a quad for £600 at 2.93ghz with a 4mb cache, or for about £660 you get a 2.66ghz with 2x 4mb cache. I do a lot of extremely hungry audio work and my current processor gives out before I even get going. What do people suggest? Is it worth having the higher cache as the price tag suggests?
Secondly is there any major performance difference between full and small form factors? I'd rather have a small computer but not at the cost of performance.
Any of your help is much appreciated as always, I've never had any advice from this community that turned out to be bad!