Should I buy Conroe now or wait for quad core?

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: bwanaaa
but i thought 'Alan Wake' is a game that will spawn 5 threads. Quad core with hyperthreading will be able to dedicate a 'whole effective' cpu to each thread and i thought they said dual cores will choke? A sign of things to come?

The guys that wrote Max Payne (and Alan Wake) aren't that dumb. If that were true, it would be the biggest flop in the history of software, I can assure you.

Originally posted by: ealdric
My earlier post in this topic was intended to be Humorous on both counts.

Don't worry. Our dry sense of humor sometimes is misunderstood on forums like this, since they can't see our faces, and can't hear the intonation in our voices.

 

[dexvx]

BTW, on a serious note.

Based on current roadmaps, Intel will stop pushing multi-cores on the desktop/consumer front after 4 cores. On the server/workstation front it'll be a different story. So we can probably expect 4 cores to hold on the consumer side for a 2 or so years after the initial Kentsfield debut.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Two words:

Dell XPS410.

Best deal in the business right now.