Mr.D. Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Stumbled upon a site that compares CPUs for you - Intel v Intel, Intel v AMD, i5 v i7, etc... Its a pretty cool site and hopefully this will help you pick your next processor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 One more site worth (IMO) visiting: https://helpdesk.wisc.edu/showroom/page.php?id=4927 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FransNetwork Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Well, Think about it like this.... Q. How many cores dos OS X need? A 1. If it needs 2 cores and 2 threads then a Intel Core 2 Duo with the highest CPU speed. A 2. If it takes 4 cores and 4 threads then Intel Core 2 Extreme again with high CPU speed. A 3. Intel i7 takes 4 cores and 8 threads but dos OS X need that many cores and threads? Also to mention what would you be doing on your Mac? Facetime HD? Intel Core 2 Extreme Photo editing? Intel Core 2 Duo Video editing and Music editing? Intel i7 AMD's in my eyes isn't made for Macs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santa1 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 If you look only for a CPU model (frecv, cores and so on) you risk to make a disequilibrate computer, you need to coordonate a CPU with speed of RAM, speed of GPU and the spped of HDD to avoid bottlenecks. So the CPU it self not say much about a computer and his capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FransNetwork Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 If you look only for a CPU model (frecv, cores and so on) you risk to make a disequilibrate computer, you need to coordonate a CPU with speed of RAM, speed of GPU and the spped of HDD to avoid bottlenecks. So the CPU it self not say much about a computer and his capabilities. true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.D. Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 If you look only for a CPU model (frec, v, cores and so on) you risk to make a disequilibrate computer, you need to coordonate a CPU with speed of RAM, speed of GPU and the speed of HDD to avoid bottlenecks. So the CPU it self not say much about a computer and his capabilities. Agreed - By no means should this be the ONLY tool you use, these tools are here just to help you pick the CPU. Perhaps I'll start a thread that is more generic so people can post online resources for helping choose the best system components for their needs/budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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