Quantifying price/performance

[aigomorla]

my personal pc will never be rational.
I love speed... via real world, or virtual world.
I'll glady give up the extra 100W TDS for higher clock speed, and will glady accept the extra heat because my system was designed just for that.

Isnt that why we buy expensive heat sinks to push these processors to that extreme?
Isnt that why we always look for that perfect case which can keep our entire system cool?

Its like a Prius owner is sitting next to me in my funny car which is bleeding gasoline.

Now if is for a business type machine... well... i go after stability and longivity before cost/savings.
So i never really considered cost/savings in anything. I always look at stability / longivity as forte, and then just pick out from those selections on cost / value.


Well... that being said... you cant really quantify value in a processor which was attained at discount.
Nor can you quantify value in a hardware which has been retired out.
Because then your going into a hobbiest arena, and in that arena, almost any reason is justifiable... even if the CPU looks "cute".

 

[TerryMathews]

my personal pc will never be rational.
I love speed... via real world, or virtual world.
I'll glady give up the extra 100W TDS for higher clock speed, and will glady accept the extra heat because my system was designed just for that.

Isnt that why we buy expensive heat sinks to push these processors to that extreme?
Isnt that why we always look for that perfect case which can keep our entire system cool?

Its like a Prius owner is sitting next to me in my funny car which is bleeding gasoline.

Now if is for a business type machine... well... i go after stability and longivity before cost/savings.
So i never really considered cost/savings in anything. I always look at stability / longivity as forte, and then just pick out from those selections on cost / value.


Well... that being said... you cant really quantify value in a processor which was attained at discount.
Nor can you quantify value in a hardware which has been retired out.
Because then your going into a hobbiest arena, and in that arena, almost any reason is justifiable... even if the CPU looks "cute".

Nothing at all wrong with that. It's the difference between a tool and a toy.

Let's take cars (everyone's favorite computer metaphor). Some people buy the fastest, or the prettiest, or the most aggressive they can afford. Like Corvettes.

Other people take a specific need, like I need to haul 2000 lbs in cargo and I need a 12ft bed. And they buy the cheapest that will accomplish that goal.

Quantifying price/performance will never interest someone who buys a toy. It should interest those that price tools.

I'm going to work on assigning values to the rigs I stole from the Handbrake thread this weekend.