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On 07/11/2010 09:36 AM, Stephen Adler wrote: > The CPU I have in my motherboard on my desktop right now is the followi= ng... > > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz > > it boasts 5665.81 Bogomips. I bought this CPU 2 years ago. As of today,= =20 > I have no need to upgrade, or rather, I don't know what I could get in = > the same price range (~$300) which would make it worth my time to go=20 > through the hassle of ripping out my CPU and putting a new one in. I=20 > could get a Q9550S with 12Megs of cache (instead of 8), but would my=20 > windows pop up any faster? Maybe my virtual PC's would boot up more=20 > quickly, but by how much? Would the i7 really boost my performance by a= =20 > factor of 2? > > Personally, as a desktop user, I feel that Moore's law is in decline.=20 > We're stuck at 3GHz and I don't see how multi threading is going to=20 > change my desktop experience. > > High Performance Computing is another thing of course, but I don't run = a=20 > data center on my desktop... :( > =20 Essentially desktop computer users don't really need more than a couple of cores. It is essentially a computer that one user is using at a time. In server space, the issues are much different. But, Moore's law was really referring to chips and not computers. --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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