To spend your money wisely
After years of pursuit of happiness in the IT industry, I finally come to the conclusion that there is really no need to care about hardware with full enthusiasm. Maybe we still remember the first time we got a new PC and even did not know how to power it on. Then maybe we got our first Smartphone, and found out that the smart phone was not smart at all especially the Windows CE. Apple’s Iphone, RIM’s palm and Google’s Android jumped on the bandwagon, Symbian and Window Mobile has suffered a lot in the coming years. Then we might move on to digital camera, craved for a DSLR. As the WIFI became popular, the spade of internet base devices mushroomed and we were quite obsessed with Apple Ipod Touch and some other knock offs. Since the economic situation worsened in the year 2008, consumers became more aware of values of your dollars, netbooks were another popular gadget and this trend continues even though the economy has bottomed out, People has make it as an alternative for notebooks.
The processor has upgraded from a single core to dual core, tri core and quad core. The video card even can do a lot of tasks which are executed by CPU. Nvidia and Intel were even debating on whether CPU or GPU will die in the future.
With the release of Intel’s core i7, a new architecture with built-in memory controller sports the technology like Intel turbo boost and hyper-threading; you can’t even imagine what the boundary it is for the technology. With its new release of i7 (socket 1156) core i5 and Core i3, Intel even makes consumers more difficult choose by providing a wide range of products Portfolios.
The new Intel core i7 consist of two products: Intel core i7 870 and Intel core i7 860 which sport 2.93GHz and 2.8GHz respectively. While the core i5 750 is 2.66GHz with the famous Intel hyper-threading feature eliminated (As you probably already know, Hyper-Threading is Intel’s simultaneous multi-threading technology that presents each physical core as two logical cores to an operating system.), for those who might benefit from the hyper-threading, there is some reason for you to consider a core i7. Moreover, all these three processors come with dual channel DDDR3 controller, a not bad choice concerning the current price of ddr3 chips. How’re you supposed to choose between CPUs when architecture, functionality, and pricing are all so similar?
Moreover, AMD is also leveling its best to compete in the business and provide some good value processors. The most benefit for AMD fans after the unleash e of intel core i5 750 might be the slash of AMD 965BE price in the near future. How could you choose aside from other consideration of Motherboard and memory combinations?
I don’t see the point of keep up the pace with the newest technology. There are wealth of choices for us to choose with the tech and manufacturing tech transition. The old technology is still plenty enough to perform certain tasks and even serve us well in the coming years, what is the point of pursuing the latest tech? So the wiser people will seize the great opportunity to get something really great bang for bucks right now. such might be the case, wit the new Intel core i7 and core i5’s hitting shelves, which Intel aims to replace its LGA 775 lineups, the price of the not-so-old Intel core 2 or Quad family are likely to enjoy the price slashes, then for those who are cautiously spend their hard-earned money, maybe it is not bad to snap a shell shocker of Intel core duo or from AMD’s equivalent lineups.
When you are not a big fan of hardware but still interested the exhilarating innovative tech, you probably know how to wisely spend your bucks and enjoy the great performance/price ratio of a wide range of products. With the limited budget, you can always enjoy more thanks to the rapid evolvement of PC industry.