For games and e-mail? No. Unless you intend to run a LOT of games and e-mail clients at the same time.<br><br>At work, I find it very useful, because I run VM's. Dual Quad core xeons with 16gb of ram is just pretty much necessary for that application. <br>
<br>At home I have a single quad core machine in the studio, and an older dual core machine that serves as my primary communications/browsing machine. then there is the junk pile of machines people have given me because they were broken in one way or another and they bought a new one rather than simply replacing a hard drive (some people arent so bright...). I have too many damn computers.<br>
<br>Tony<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Joost Schuttelaar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joost@joostschuttelaar.nl">joost@joostschuttelaar.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Aug 16, 2009, at 23:09 , Peter Korsten wrote:<br>
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> Is this silly to do at home? Is the extra expense wasted?<br>
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</div>Yeah. I run a dual core 2.33, but the CPU is hardly ever the limiting<br>
factor. Disk and RAM are what slows things down (rarely).<br>
<br>
Quad core is nice, but such a power sucking 2x CPU machine seems a bit<br>
overkill (fatter PSU needed as well).<br>
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Joost Schuttelaar<br>
The Hague, NL<br>
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