hardware for home use large storage

[Peter C. Lai]

On 2010-02-15 10:29:22PM +0100, Gót András wrote:
> On Hét, Február 15, 2010 10:15 pm, Dan Naumov wrote:
> >>> A C2Q CPU makes little sense right now from a performance POV. For
> >>> the price of that C2Q CPU + LGA775 board you can get an i5 750 CPU and
> >>> a 1156 socket motherboard that will run circles around that C2Q. You
> >>> would lose the ECC though, since that requires the more expensive 1366
> >>> socket CPUs and boards.
> >>>
> >>> - Sincerely,
> >>> Dan Naumov
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> Do have test about this? I'm not really impressed with the i5 series.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Andras
> >>
> >
> > There: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3634&p=10
> >
> >
> > The i5 750, which is a 180 euro CPU, beats Q9650 C2Q, which is a 300 euro
> > CPU.
> >
> >
> >
> > - Sincerely,
> > Dan Naumov
> >
> >
> 
> Oh, I was not up to date on price performance ratio. However I'd compare
> the i5 750 to the Q8400 which is also a 2,66GHz one.
> 

Perhaps there is some confusion between the i5 and i3? A C2Q will probably
beat an i3 at the same clock speed but i5 750 has 8mb of unified cache and 
the turboboost feature. IMO a lot of the benchmark differences between an 
i5 and C2Q can be attributed to DDR3 and the onboard ram controller on the 
i5 reducing latency (which if one is to believe Herb Sutter, is the bane 
of all modern CPUs).

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