fyi
my old laptop, is ~2GHz, single core.
It runs programs faster than friends’ shiny spaceship-like 12 month old laptops.
I’m looking to buy a medium level pc in the $1000 range. I’d like to go heavy on CPU and GPU but moderate on RAM (6gb) and thrills (DVD-RW rather than Bluray).
Main uses will be video games like Civ5 and the typical household use. I don’t play a lot of games but when I do I want them to look nice.
Is this processor worth waiting for? I’ve compared the i7 vs. the AMD x6 and lean toward AMD because it is so much cheaper.
Note the Apple desktop in the background.
IDF Intel 2010: Intel overclocks Sandy Bridge CPU to 4.9GHz, outpaces 12-core AMD Opteron
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y Sean Portnoy | September 15, 2010, 9:08pm PDT
Summary
Intel has been providing dribs and drabs of information about its forthcoming Sandy Bridge processors during this week’s Intel Developer Forum. For instance, we now know that the integrated GPU will not support many DirectX 11 features, and it will automatically get disabled when a discrete graphics card is added to a PCI Express slot.
Meanwhile, [...]
Is this true?:
“Sandy Bridge processors will implement security features that include the ability to remotely disable a PC or erase information from hard drives. This can be useful in the case of a lost or stolen PC. The commands can be received through 3G signals, ethernet, or internet connections.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge_%28microarchitecture%29
I always take Wikipedia with a grain of salt.