[papasmurf]

That is just what I’m thinking about. :)

I haven’t built a high end box, for myself, since 01. Now I have laptops that outperform that high end one.

I need one that will take me into my “golden years”. (That’s about another year or two) LOL

[ThePythonicCow]

I need one that will take me into my “golden years”.

Hmmm ... I wonder if it counts as the "golden years", if one has the years, but not yet the gold?

But enough of my situation.

For personal use, even high end boxes, Xeon is better suited than Itanium. The best available single processor speeds of Itanium won't be much better than Xeon (actually, the other way around, for some loads.)

The Itanium will provide support for terabytes of main memory, dozens or hundreds of parallel processors, world class floating point, and the sorts of power and exception handling required for extreme uptime.

Getting an Itanium for personal use could be like getting a Peterbilt for your personal car: