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    Which Core 2 Quad

    I just looked on the same site. They now have the Q6600 in stock Q6600 2.4GHz 1066 FSB 8MB cache retail G0 stepping £149 given that it's to replace my existing E6600 with aftermarket fan, surely I should go for the Q6700 OEM?
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    Hyperthreading

    I'm trying to work out of the hyperthreading on the i7 is going to make a big difference to me. I run 8 VMWare sessions simultaneously, mostly idle, but it's possible up to three could be doing hard-core processing at any given time. This is on top of usual desktop applications. Will it...
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    Core i7 for sale in Israel 1st Nov 2008?

    You don't sign an NDA when you order from a hardware site!
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    Need to upgrade - 4GB Core 2 2.4 not fast enough

    The other issue is it's possibly worth simply buying the RAM and skipping the CPU upgrade. If I did this, is a dual to quad core on an existing install a sensible swap, or is it necessary/highly recommended to reinstall Windows?
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    Need to upgrade - 4GB Core 2 2.4 not fast enough

    My Spinpoint F1s score 1042 IO/s, the Caviar Black 1136. When I go 64 bit, the 200GB (which probably gets about 500 IO/s) will be junked, and I probably will go back to RAID 1 for the F1s. In the meantime I've switched my pagefile to the Spinpoint - the VMs are already alll there. I...
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    Need to upgrade - 4GB Core 2 2.4 not fast enough

    My OS/app drive is the old 200GB SATA drive. All my data is on the 1TB drives, which are quite new, and I guess (haven't checked) benchmarks, perform very similarly to any other 1TB drive. I originally had WD 400GB Raid Edition drives (RAID1), but they failed every six weeks or so, and after...
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    Need to upgrade - 4GB Core 2 2.4 not fast enough

    TBH it's slow with four or five. And they are most of the time sitting idle.
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    Need to upgrade - 4GB Core 2 2.4 not fast enough

    Yeah that's what I meant. I basically have four options: 1: wait, and buy new mboard, i7, and RAM, then go 64 bit 2. buy 4 * 2GB RAM and go 64 bit now 3: buy Core 2 Duo Q-series and 4 * 2GB RAM and go 64 bit now 4. do option 2 now, see if I am happy with the performance, and if not I...
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    Need to upgrade - 4GB Core 2 2.4 not fast enough

    As per the title, I have a PC with: ATI X1650 Pro Maxtor 6Y200M0 200GB hard drive (fairly old 7200 rpm SATA hd) 2 * Samsung HD103UJ 1 TB hard drives Pioneer DVD-Rom Creative X-Fi soundcard (Gamer?) 4GB of RAM Asus P5B-E Plus motherboard Core 2 Duo E6600 running at stock with...