Posting stuff that I probably would have found helpful starting out. Here we have temperature management which I should have done with my P4 when I still had it because I'm pretty sure the vidya card in it puttered out because of overheating ;~;
Hey Askal, is it worth it to invest in Core i7/i5/i3s yet?
Probably not unless you're still running on single core. Then the i3s/i5s are pretty good value (not more than AMD quads though I think). Unless you're a professional video editor or something, you don't need an i7.Don't take my word at face value on i3/i5 vs AMDs yet though because I haven't seen benchmarks,
>>281I found Tripper decodes per second.
>>331Found a few tech site reviews, i5 generally perform a little better or about the same as the AMD quads in practical benchmarks, though it dominates in synthetic benchmarks. I think AMD holds on to it's status as best price/performance ratio. Some of their triple cores got pretty good performance in comparison as well, if you factor in the price.