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I was very very tempted to get one. I almost bought one. I was planning to buy one. I then talked myself down and bought a i7 930 instead. I'm playing around with it now to get it stable at 4.2Ghz with HT on. I just couldn't justify the cost benefit ratio. Either way I figure I have a 930 to beat on for now and by the time I get a 6 core most likely the price of it and the 930 combined will be at or below what I would have paid for the 6 core right now.
I'm thinking you made the right decision. Honestly, there are not too many apps yet that make use of even 4 cores (better yet 2). Five years from now, that may be a completely different case. However, right now, 4 is plenty... especially with hyperthreading.
The real problem is that current OSes really aren't designed for multicore. Win7 makes better use of multicore than XP or Vista but it's still very inefficient. Coincidentally I read this article yesterday:
Good article. Sadly, if they were to develop along those lines, it'll be quite a while. I'm thinking 3-5 years at best. Probably have to ditch a bunch of hardware as well.
Wish my work would do that. We've got a friggen 3ghz P4 running our server. That's after I told them that I could get a dual processor rig for half the price. Oh well.
hehe...yeah, we're not short on keeping things current here, which makes it fun. these are not our most powerful servers (we have about 200 between production/dev/test...60% virtual or so), but definitely "generous" for what they'll be doing.
