Hardware choice - i7 9XX series or Sandy bridge - i.e. 2600 series
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
Get a good video card and lots of ram. Any quad core processor will be fine.
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
I don't think it would really make much of a difference. I'd go for the cheaper one.
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
If you're not completely sold on Intel you'd find that AMDs are usually about a $100 dollars cheaper and you get more cores. I was looking at a 6 core processor at 2.5 and it was considerably cheaper than the Intel version. Just my 2 cents.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
Both are of a different breed actually. Sandy Bridge is a major architectural revamp and can top 4 GHz with simple overclocking. It also has a on die fully DX10 compliant GPU, which is cool. If you can afford it, go for the 2600 and throw in a decent amount of RAM. And if you're planning on using SSD's, the 2600 has a 6Gbps bus.
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
they're all overkill for editing text files
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
If it is UI stuff then go for SandyBridge with a really good Graphics Card. Oh, and lots of memory.
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they're all overkill for editing text files
Oh, I wasn't aware that compiler and Notepad are in fact the same thing.
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Oh, I wasn't aware that compiler and Notepad are in fact the same thing.
and now you know!
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Purely from a point of view of heavy UI based WPF, Silverlight development, which one of these processors should one go for? i7 970 (3.2 GHz) or the new Sandy bridge / 2600 series The 2600 series has only 4 core maximum, so maybe i7 970 series (which has 6 cores)?... given i will be playing around heavily with tools such as TPL/PLINQ, etc. Opinions please. I am buying a new PC soon....
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If you're not completely sold on Intel you'd find that AMDs are usually about a $100 dollars cheaper and you get more cores. I was looking at a 6 core processor at 2.5 and it was considerably cheaper than the Intel version. Just my 2 cents.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Unfortunately, when you look beyond core count and clock speed, AMD processors are far behind the performance of the new Intel chips. There was a time when that wasn't so - AMD used to be better and cheaper. Maybe it will be that way again, when Bulldozer finally comes out - who knows.
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Unfortunately, when you look beyond core count and clock speed, AMD processors are far behind the performance of the new Intel chips. There was a time when that wasn't so - AMD used to be better and cheaper. Maybe it will be that way again, when Bulldozer finally comes out - who knows.
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Both are of a different breed actually. Sandy Bridge is a major architectural revamp and can top 4 GHz with simple overclocking. It also has a on die fully DX10 compliant GPU, which is cool. If you can afford it, go for the 2600 and throw in a decent amount of RAM. And if you're planning on using SSD's, the 2600 has a 6Gbps bus.
SG Aham Brahmasmi!
The 2600's are the cheaper platform actually. There's no real point to an LGA1366 system any longer unless you're doing something bound by the PCIe bandwidth (some GPU computing is), or that will scale across cores, but not the network.
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If you're not completely sold on Intel you'd find that AMDs are usually about a $100 dollars cheaper and you get more cores. I was looking at a 6 core processor at 2.5 and it was considerably cheaper than the Intel version. Just my 2 cents.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_