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the 920 uses ddr3 sdram at 1066 mhz and the 9550 uses ddr2 sdram at 800 mhz. the 920 is newer technology the diff in price can be ?200ish.
the 920 is therefore faster and better technology but comes at a is a faster processor but slower in gaming because it has less cache
the 920 is therefore faster and better technology but comes at a is a faster processor but slower in gaming because it has less cache
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Me too. At least I would be if I understood more than 10% of the post. :giggle:
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Me too. At least I would be if I understood more than 10% of the post. :giggle:
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Casanova
Core2 architecture is Intel's older architecture. Has 1, 2 or 4 (Extreme badged CPU's) cores (each core is a little CPU,so think 1, 2 or 4 CPU's) More cores does NOT necessarily mean faster stuff. Your applications need to know how to make use of Symmetric Multi-threading (know how to use more than one CPU)
Corei7 (and i5/i3) are Intel's new CPU's, they use new faster RAM (slight more costly) and faster speeds on the Motherboard. Because the iX cores have a bit more intelligence built in they do things slightly better/faster than the equivalent Core2, so even applications that don't understand more than one core (CPU) perform slightly better.
Windows Vista and 7 both quite happy with either architecture, think of the i7(5/3) as beefed up Core2's. The biggest advantage (besides speed) is actually heat/power use as the iX series have better power management, and are made with smaller micron silicon (smaller the better, but more expensive) this has benefits with things like noise and cost of running.
If you just want a PC to email/internet/1080p video then get Core2
If you want to play games etc then get i7 with decent Graphics Processing Unit (Latest ATI/nVidia)
Hope that helps
Oh and just for info the i3/i5 are Intel's replacement for the mobile CPU's based on the same core technology as the i7
Corei7 (and i5/i3) are Intel's new CPU's, they use new faster RAM (slight more costly) and faster speeds on the Motherboard. Because the iX cores have a bit more intelligence built in they do things slightly better/faster than the equivalent Core2, so even applications that don't understand more than one core (CPU) perform slightly better.
Windows Vista and 7 both quite happy with either architecture, think of the i7(5/3) as beefed up Core2's. The biggest advantage (besides speed) is actually heat/power use as the iX series have better power management, and are made with smaller micron silicon (smaller the better, but more expensive) this has benefits with things like noise and cost of running.
If you just want a PC to email/internet/1080p video then get Core2
If you want to play games etc then get i7 with decent Graphics Processing Unit (Latest ATI/nVidia)
Hope that helps
Oh and just for info the i3/i5 are Intel's replacement for the mobile CPU's based on the same core technology as the i7
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errrrrrrrr don't you mean John is your friend.....
nah john is my partner lol........ just so happens he a pc geek as well :twisted:
I'm still doing my studies, but without looking I'm sure that the core on a CPU is a maths processor called a floating point core. If you are into playing high end games or editing / producing videos or music you might need the higher powered tecknology However I'm reasonably sure that most of those machines are using a 64 bit wide bus, which a lot of software doesn't support. Personally I would seek advice about the best system to meet my needs and that is supported by the software I use, not just go for the latest tecknology.
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I'm still doing my studies, but without looking I'm sure that the core on a CPU is a maths processor called a floating point core. If you are into playing high end games or editing / producing videos or music you might need the higher powered tecknology However I'm reasonably sure that most of those machines are using a 64 bit wide bus, which a lot of software doesn't support. Personally I would seek advice about the best system to meet my needs and that is supported by the software I use, not just go for the latest tecknology.
Nope not strictly true
, all Intel Architectures (since the 386DX) have an integer, and a floating point processor 'as one'. As for the 64bit stuff, in the windows world there are two flavor's. x86 (32bit) and x64 (64bit) the difference between those two processor technologies is reletavly minor (2 instructions to be exact), and x64 Windows will run ALL x86 Software (in a mode called WOW - Windows On Windows). The benefit of 64bit over 32bit is almost purely Memory based (x86 can only access a 32bit address space, ie GB of ram whereas x64 has a 64bit address space therefor 4Tb ram), dont think of x86 and x64 the same as games consoles where 64 is better than 32 (or in the PS3/360 case multiple x64's are better) as the x86 chip (only one really available for sale nowadays, that's the Intel Atom used in Netbooks, every other modern CPU has the X64 extensions) is essentially a 64bit chip internally (and has been for many years, P4 days) just it's Data bus and NorthBridge could not access the 64bit address space.
I'd say if buying a new PC, make sure it has Windows7 x64 on it (unless it's a netbook, then that's not possible), and not x86. You wont notice any difference (some x64 only programs will work slightly quicker, most of Adobe's apps have x64 specific variants for example, these are not however for 'performance', but memory use, more ram is better for real world performance) but at least you are future proofed :)
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and x64 Windows will run ALL x86 Software (in a mode called WOW - Windows On Windows).
Not entirely true, the WoW64 system will pick up most 32-bit installers and install accordingly. 64-bit Windows operating systems require all drivers to be 64-bit. Well, many 32-bit applications depend on 32-bit drivers, and those applications will not run on 64-bit Windows
Casanova
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and x64 Windows will run ALL x86 Software (in a mode called WOW - Windows On Windows).
Not entirely true, the WoW64 system will pick up most 32-bit installers and install accordingly. 64-bit Windows operating systems require all drivers to be 64-bit. Well, many 32-bit applications depend on 32-bit drivers, and those applications will not run on 64-bit Windows
Erm, beside Apple with iTunes there's not a lot that uses kernel mode drivers anymore, as it's 'outlawed' by Microsoft, and 32bit User Mode drivers will work just fine in WOW64.
But technicaly your right, however having run x64 only systems for the best part of 3 years now I can honestly say it's not an issue, never found owt in recent (2 year since been on W7) that wont work on x64, and hardware drivers are a non-issue now as any MSHQL drivers must have x86 and x64 versions published.
Plus, there's also the fact that W7 will be the last x86 capable version of Windows anyhow, so all vendors are already moving to x64 base builds (OEM's are meant to ship x64 by default on capable equipment now).
Like I say, kinda non-issue as all non Atom (and only the 7xx range of them) are x64 CPU's anyhow, even the Atom is x64 internal, just the external bus is 32bit, and that was done to cut down on die size (to lower power requirements) and is also why the MMX/SSE/Virtualisation instructions are missing.
