Thanks Jase, a used 8600 is going to be $5-$6K. The war department(wife) will have a Splinduric Mandragua (not a good thing
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Originally Posted by koputai
It really depends on how much you want to spend.
The new i7 is nice, and if you can afford a quad core, go for it, it's the best you can get in the consumer market.
If you're into workstation territory, we use HP xw8600's (octo-core Xeon) at work and they beat any Mac you can shake a cheque at (we also have the latest octo-core Mac Pro's, which only the guys who think they're fashionable use). The new HP Z800 we just received is 25% faster than the 8600. Smokin!! Oh, and Intel over AMD too. We have 16 core AMD machines, and they are only 5% faster than the 8600 and 3x the price.
Vista, all versions, is carp. Run with XP 32 or 64 as a hold-over until Windows 7 is released, it's looking worthy.
Personally, if I was building a new machine for home, it'd be an i7 quad core, with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, an Nvidia 512MB graphics card, running XP64. Oh, and I'd buy the kids a PS3 or XBox and not let them touch the PC!
Cheers,
Jason.
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