Am I doing the right thing....

[jamesgoddard]

I have a Asus P5W coming with the eventual idea of upgrading to a C2Q some time down the road, but I am having doubts as I fear the K8L may wipe the floor with it, please put my mind at rest on this!!!!

 

[mkaibear]

No-one knows at the moment how well the K8L will perform, it's impossible to say. If you want to upgrade at the moment, the C2D is the best chip, it will do the business for some time to come.

 

[jaguarskx]

Quad cores are nice, but a waste of money if you don't have programs that can take advantage of all that processing power.

There is alway the fear of obsolesance, it is impossible to escape unless your are willing to spend a few thousand dollar every year to stay on the cutting edge.

 

[Lottie]

Do not fall into the trap of AMD fanboy FUD!

 

[Cabletwitch]

And to provide a counterpoint, dont fall into the trap of believing all the Intel fanboys either. Both companies are more than competant in creating a CPU that will outshine the other.

This process takes time, however, and there will always be a gap where one will have the advantage. Currently Intel has the upper hand, and is likely to remain on top for a while.

The bottom line is that while the K8L could be a Core 2 Duo beater, any of the top line of CPUs will have sufficient power for a few years time, so whatever you buy, it will be able to hold its own for some time to come.

 

[Fox_granit]

As a boss once told me, deal with facts. We know nothing of anything coming from either company until its released. Get the best buy from the market you have in front of you, which is the CoreDuo. Anything else, your just waiting for the ship to come in.

 

[Lottie]

Precicely, what you see is what you get. That includes unreleased, but published engineering samples which Rev.H(it's not K8L) currently doesn't have at all.

 

[Doughbuy]

Then don't buy either and wait. If we could predict the future, I wouldn't be posting here, I'd be swimming in my lottery money or being a pimp on wall street.

Just keep up with the news and decide for yourself. Its your money, you decide how you want to waste it (yes waste, not spend). If you really want a quad-core go for it, but it will be at least until the winter of 07 that we will really see programs for it, and 08 before it goes mainstream.