[avandonk]

As far as I can work out for sheer grunt you cannot beat an i7. The on board die memory controller is the clincher for me. IP 64 bit is multithreaded and or uses multicores. Registar is still 32 bit but is very memory intensive.

I have not been able to make it swap ram to disk or saturate the processors yet. Give me some time. This CPU also overclocks well but I wont bother yet.

As a small example a Richardson Lucy enhancement that took 1.5 hrs on my old machine with a 6.5k (170MB) pixels wide image only took 12 minutes with a 9k (250MB) pixels wide image!

If you want to go down memory lane my first computer was a PDP8 with 2k of memory.in 1968.

In the past at CSIRO we had many very expensive super computers. My desktop now leaves them all for dead. They will not let me play with the current real super computers.

I ran all my lab (6) computers in command code unix. What power hey! Three or four keystrokes would set off a major chain reaction!

Bert