11-01-2007, 11:12 AM
Quote:Imo, you should wait on that one. Quad core chips are dropping rapidly (there's one for ~266 right now) and all other chips will be going down soon as well since Penryn's launch is imminent.
Going dual -> quad is a different beast from single -> dual, though. With dual, there's instant benefit. Any time you're using multiple programs (WinAmp in the background), you get to use your extra core. For a single program to take advantage of multiple cores it's gotta be coded in properly. Modern games are pretty good at passing off work to two cores. They're not so good about four cores, yet.
Of course, if you're doing any kind of graphical/audio processing, those programs use the extra cores pretty well already.
Trade yourself in for the perfect one. No one needs to know that you feel you've been ruined!