my new pc

[Blaze-Senpai]

If I was building a desktop now myself, I'd skip the Core 2 Duo's and get a i7 myself; but i'm getting a laptop so blah.

[Nate]

If I was building a desktop now myself, I'd skip the Core 2 Duo's and get a i7 myself; but i'm getting a laptop so blah.

i7's are nice, but Quad's don't run games quite as good as Core 2 Duo's do.

[snorkel]

i7's are nice, but Quad's don't run games quite as good as Core 2 Duo's do.

that makes no fucking sense because even if games didn't support full quad-core threading it would still be at least as good as a dual-core

[Nate]

that makes no fucking sense because even if games didn't support full quad-core threading it would still be at least as good as a dual-core

Well sure, it runs as good as a Core 2, but if you aren't getting any performance increases based on spending over $200 on a processor, I don't quite see a point.

[snorkel]

Well sure, it runs as good as a Core 2, but if you aren't getting any performance increases based on spending over $200 on a processor, I don't quite see a point.

You can run most games fine on a single core CPU of decent clock. Why not just spend $40 on an old Core Duo? Oh yeah, because the point of computers isn't games

[Nate]

You can run most games fine on a single core CPU of decent clock. Why not just spend $40 on an old Core Duo? Oh yeah, because the point of computers isn't games

Depending on what type of computer you want.

[LCK]

Yes and I'll be adding second and third terabyte drives for backup and extra storage... the case is expensive, yeah, but it's worth it for what I've read is superb cooling and sound deadening

uh between the mobo's built-in heatsink and the stock one that comes with the i7 I should be fine, the case has good cooling

stock heatsinks are fucking terrible even with a case that has good cooling and they tend to be loud as fuck

anyway
my original point when posting this was that you don't seem like the type of person who would settle for something like a stock heatsink when you could easily get much better for $20-30

[?????]

What in the world do you need an i7 for?

[LCK]

What in the world do you need an i7 for?

to be cool

[Minus;]

Nice dude!
That is such a beast setup.
Mine sucks:/

[snorkel]

stock heatsinks are fucking terrible even with a case that has good cooling and they tend to be loud as fuck

anyway
my original point when posting this was that you don't seem like the type of person who would settle for something like a stock heatsink when you could easily get much better for $20-30

I guess but I've been running OC'd at about 3.4ghz for months with no cooling problems so I'll stick with the stock one until I need to go to 4

What in the world do you need an i7 for?

converting hundreds of 50-60mb images at a time from raw to jpg or tif is something I do several times in a week, and i7 makes it go really, really fast

also processing HD footage, editing/generating HD images, applying filters and the like to massive files in photoshop, are all things I do frequently

[LCK]

I guess but I've been running OC'd at about 3.4ghz for months with no cooling problems so I'll stick with the stock one until I need to go to 4

okay dude

[Minus;]

My laptop forever overheats