Six-core AMD Phenom™ II X6 1035T processor ??

  On 6/14/2011 at 6:08 PM, Promo said:

So you guys reckon I should hold out for the 8 core processor PCs? Hope they're within my price range of £600!!

The most expensive high end one will be like $320 that's US dollars so I think your good.

Now if your talking about 600 euro total for a PC then I suggest you wait till those CPU's come out and AMD's next gen GPU's come out and build (preferably) or buy one then when you saved up so more cash.

If your looking for something to run Skyrim this year then just get a quad, a 6970, 4 GB of DDR3 1600 RAM and your good.

What is 'puter even gonna be used for in the first place ? More cores != Better music abilities ...

  On 6/14/2011 at 6:08 PM, Promo said:

So you guys reckon I should hold out for the 8 core processor PCs? Hope they're within my price range of £600!!

you're definitely not going to get a whole 8 core computer (screen, keyboard, mouse, case) for £600, not for a long time.

  On 6/14/2011 at 7:54 PM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

  On 6/14/2011 at 6:08 PM, Promo said:

So you guys reckon I should hold out for the 8 core processor PCs? Hope they're within my price range of £600!!

 

The most expensive high end one will be like $320 that's US dollars so I think your good.

 

Now if your talking about 600 euro total for a PC then I suggest you wait till those CPU's come out and AMD's next gen GPU's come out and build (preferably) or buy one then when you saved up so more cash.

 

If your looking for something to run Skyrim this year then just get a quad, a 6970, 4 GB of DDR3 1600 RAM and your good.

$320 = £195. you definitely can't get a high-end PC for £195 here.

There is also no need to buy the newest most expensive components. Buy the things that gives the best bang for the buck. Future-proofing is pointless and impossible.

  On 6/14/2011 at 10:11 PM, azatoth said:

There is also no need to buy the newest most expensive components. Buy the things that gives the best bang for the buck. Future-proofing is pointless and impossible.

Sure but so is buying outdated stuff. He can just get the next generation's mid range budget hardware that's about to come out.

I speak because I'm tempted to get an X6 and 6 series GPU but choose to wait a bit and save my money for Bulldozer and 7 series.

I personally tend to skip 1 generation and then upgrade the next. So like I'm going from 5 Series Phenom II X4 to 7 Series X8 Skipping 6 Series and X6.

i'm saving for a laptop but by the time i can afford it it'll probably be decent.

  On 6/14/2011 at 1:08 AM, Tamas said:

  On 6/13/2011 at 11:25 PM, acid1 said:

How long till we have giga-core's

I'm guessing 15-20 years for the consumer market, but yeah, I'm excited for the growth of multicore processors, I dream of a day where computers will have so many cores that the processing power could be distributed just by synths and effects, I don't often reach 100% at 1.6GHz dual core but there are times when I'm doing a final master and it really sucks having to render a small part a time to hear what it sounds like after all the final EQs/mastering plugins are running...

Heh

Its interesting to think that one day people might say "Hey did you know back in the day they didn't dedicate threads to cores, they had cores that shared threads? What a bunch of noobs."

just got a sandybridge i5 2500K and I'm getting a HD 5770 tomorrow. great system so far, for what I want to do with it. it's even power efficient.

also got a Behringer BCF2000 for free today, albeit a bit broken, USB is broken and the power button is loose, but fuck, it's working pretty fine.

/hijack

Is it true that apples have only got one core?

  On 6/15/2011 at 2:59 PM, Rbrmyofr said:

Is it true that apples have only got one core?

I see what you did there.