Anthony,
Since I have updated 3 machines to Intel C2D procs, I am very happy.
Do not believe you need to go all the way to Itanium 7 devices. Seems
several here have had very good results with Itanium 5 devices/builds.
I plan to stay with C2D until someone can convince me otherwise..... :)
C2D just rocks so well here for me. But, I do NOT do anything special
like all the current "media" related activities. I am not into my PC
controls my whole house and everything I might wish to do. I am NOT
HAL-centric..... LOL!
Best,
Duncan
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Folks,
I need to upgrade my work computer to something more modern (which runs
Win7 fine).
What I'm like to do is move the mobo from my home machine to my office
machine, so the new mobo would come to my home machine.
This current machine has a Gigabit mobo and runs a dual core CPU 3.0
GHz. This machine gets a 5.5/7.9 on the WEI, so it handles Win7 just fine.
The office machine is old, though. Pentium 4 3.6 GHz.
So, what should I get for the home mobo? I'm no gamer, though I used to
dream of such. I've been making lots if high-def videos, though, at
720p. I'd like to move to 1080p, if possible.
All of the processor options are just mind boggling, it seems. I think
I want to stay intel, so I'm not sure why....should I go with this i7
line cpus? I like Gigabytes mobos, so I'm thinking I'll stay in the
line (I still have two PCs with Gigabyte mobos and both seem to run fine.
So, where should I buy? I don't need top of the line, but I'm thinking
of running Win7 64bit with at least 4 GB of ram.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.
