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LarryBoy57 wrote:
Thanks for the replies so far. If I will benefit from more cores/faster CPU, it doesn't look like there's currently allot further I can go in that direction than the i5 quad-core 3.10 GHz processor I have. All intel processors have only 4 cores and seem to max out at 3.50GHz for speed.
You can go much further with Intel, but you need a bigger budget and the stomach for thermal engineering. Perhaps the king of the single-processor heap is the i7 3970X Extreme Edition CPU: 3.5GHz base, 4GHz turbo, 6 cores, 12 hyperthreads, 15MB L3. Downsize is the price (list $1000) and the power dissipation (rated 150W), plus you have to find one for sale. Slower 6-cores are available, including a "K" version for fans of overclocking.
With an even larger budget, you can entertain Intel options with Xeon: 2, 4, or 8 CPUs, each with 8 cores (16 HT) or even 10. Your OS must support the h/w config, of course, and the applications must either be written to employ multiple threads or be capable of multi-launch to crunch images in parallel.
My main box: dual Xeon 2.0GHz with 8 cores each, 64GB ram, Linux, and plenty of tools that can run concurrently. I quite like it.
Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors
http://ark.intel.com/products/70845
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