i7 or AM3

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CaseyDDR said:

thansen said:

The i7 is the fastest processor out there right now, but it is expensive.  The AMD Phenom II and the core2 are a lot less money.   All of these processors are fast. 

If your application if very memory intesive, not gaming, the i7 with its three DDR3 memory busses can give a 40% boost in performance.  In most games the i7 is not any faster.

 

Tom

 

Probably bumping this as it's old and I haven't logged in for a while, but the i7s are NOT that expensive.

They're very expensive. Cheapest i7 CPU is more than $300 here, and the motherboard another $300.