Hey people im here to ask you for your opinion.....So far i had a quad core CPU running at 2.8ghz but 5 days ago my motherboard completely destroyed it and i'm here to ask if getting another quad core CPU running at 3.0ghz is a good CPU or should go with an Intel i7 running at 3.2ghz to be future proof for programs and multitasking or should i stick myself with another quad core.....money does not count here i have enough money to buy any of these processors thanks
the i7 is a quad core. it depends what you want really, I'm running a 3.1ghz dual core, games benefit more from a higher core speed (the ghz figure) than they do from multiple cores. That's not to say more cores is bad, it just wont benefit you much currently, except under specific usage scenarios (mostly relating to 3d rendering or video production)
Ok im just wondering because I do a lot of video editing and i just wanted to know if one these were beneficial for my suitable Computer and i do a little bit of gaming on it to i have Crysis but i also want to know will the i7 also be future proof as more programs now have a descent amount of usage of the hardware on it.
well I have a separate computer for doing my video work on (two, in fact, since one has capture hardware in it). The 3.1Ghz dual core is what I use day to day, but when it comes to video editing I have a 2.2Ghz quad core dual processor capable system (so thats potentially 8-12 cores) with 8GB ram (16GB with a second CPU). my capture system is a dual processor either 2.0 or 2.2ghz (cant remember) with a matrox RT.X100 board.
Maybe ill go with the i7 because im planning to get two hard drives one is to do video editing and other projects in which i will have sometimes around 7 projects running at once which will be 1.5tb but another will be 500gb just to do any everyday tasks such as email and surfing the web and other stuff
you need at least 4 disks for video editing properly. One with the OS and software on, a temporary disk (also known as a scratch disk), a disk to store the source video on and a disk to render the output onto. The samsung spinpoint F1/F3 1TB disks are awesome source/render disks.
