Hi, I'm 50/50 about replacing my opteron 144 @2.25Ghz with an X2 4400.
For £146 new/retail version is it worth getting? The 939 is dead now so I hear, but will the prices likely drop much more or will they start to creep up as stock becomes rare?
Thinking what I use my PC for, a dual core would be nice. My friend and I have about 250 DVD's between us and are in the process of ripping/compressing them onto our central file server as the DVD's keep getting scratched.
My friend also uses programs such as dreamweaver, photoshop heavily and I rip a lot of music cd's to my PC also. I was thinking these sorts of CPU intensive programs/tasks may benefit from dual core, so that :
1) We could set two instances of a program compressing
2) Or we cold use one core for compressing while keeping the second core to run windows etc.
Any thoughts would be great
For £146 new/retail version is it worth getting? The 939 is dead now so I hear, but will the prices likely drop much more or will they start to creep up as stock becomes rare?
Thinking what I use my PC for, a dual core would be nice. My friend and I have about 250 DVD's between us and are in the process of ripping/compressing them onto our central file server as the DVD's keep getting scratched.
My friend also uses programs such as dreamweaver, photoshop heavily and I rip a lot of music cd's to my PC also. I was thinking these sorts of CPU intensive programs/tasks may benefit from dual core, so that :
1) We could set two instances of a program compressing
2) Or we cold use one core for compressing while keeping the second core to run windows etc.
Any thoughts would be great
