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Originally Posted by chupachups
Yeah I was surprised a hexa cpu cost like 250 or so here, though I am not sure if I will ever fully utilize all 6 cores.. ? Four might be enough. How about Athlon X4 II? You can pick one up for like 100bucks
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Make sure to pay attention to clock speed as well as cache, not just the number of cores. Both can make a big difference. More applications are able to utilize all the cores these days and your OS likely also tries to utilize them as much as possible. Chrome and h.264 utilize them, Firefox 4.0 is working on (in development) fully utilizing them with their Electrolysis project.