Hi there,
May I ask what you would be using the PC for and do you have a budget in mind?
Mainly intensive things such as mathematics and a bunch of other stuff.

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Hi there,
May I ask what you would be using the PC for and do you have a budget in mind?
Mainly intensive things such as mathematics and a bunch of other stuff.
3540M
Yea, slow response - was finding out what the heck this GPS thing was - turns out its actually a thing, but only affects the more business focuses intel chips.
Well it's a decent chip, but no powerhouse.
Since it sounds like you want a laptop do you have an overall budget for the laptop?
was finding out what the heck this GPS thing was - turns out its actually a thing, but only affects the more business focuses intel chips.
Well right now one of the more popular high-end laptop CPUs is the i7-4700HQ (don't worry, this doesn't have vPro either).
This is a quad core CPU with hyperthreading (so 8 threads) and is clocked at 2.4GHz but can Turbo boost up to 3.4GHz. Also, since it uses the Haswell microarchticture it has around a 5% instructions per clock advantage over an Ivy Bridge based CPU (and a massive IPC jump compared to a Core 2). Prices for laptops using this CPU seem to start at around £1000 (though there may be some cheaper ones if you look around).
Well you did say "Throw me a CPU model"![]()
I've been after an ASIC rack
This thread is gold.
It's like something you would find in GD!