Do you really need anything faster than a C2duo 3ghz procie?

homebrewer · 05-13-2009, 03:46 AM

IMHO, the processor speeds are literally meaningless these days unless you have a better purpose than everyday gaming and video editing.

Mine is a 3ghz core2duo with 2mb of cache can do anything i throw at it and doesn't complain either. I think the next step to this threshold is a new SSD so you can get a nice boost right?

KingVinnie · 05-13-2009, 10:27 AM

Yea, not much out there that needs more except for video encoding.

valleyofchrome · 05-13-2009, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by homebrewer

IMHO, the processor speeds are literally meaningless these days unless you have a better purpose than everyday gaming and video editing.

Mine is a 3ghz core2duo with 2mb of cache can do anything i throw at it and doesn't complain either. I think the next step to this threshold is a new SSD so you can get a nice boost right?

Yep, anything that can crunch a 1m computation of Superpi in under 20 seconds is a great processor.