http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009O7YUF6/?tag=pcpapi-20
I'm probably gonna skip this sale, still can't part with that much $$ for it right now. But maybe if it goes on sale for 160-170 at another time.....
Still, an awesome price to performance processor!
i wish there was a dual socket am3 board.
go for it
At that price you wont regret it
Why?
You will then be limited by OS that actually can actively support 2 CPUs.
Windows scheduler aren't too happy bout many cores.
All flavors of Linux. WIndows 8.1 Professional. Windows 7 Ultimate. All versions of Mac OS X.
Why not get an 8320? 150$ at MIcroCenter.
Not exactly what I meant.
It is rather how the general OS schedules things (MAC windows and most linux dist do it more or less the same way), some specific server OS have much better support for dual CPUs.
Example: How windows schedules it process.
Windows will try to stack it's process on one core, which is the reason why true-multicoring wont be perfect.
A program would need to be specifically designed for multi-threading to actually use more cores(or use more resources that the single core have).
This means that even so you have skype open, listen to music and having 20+ tabs open it surely would be stacked on the same core. Also that scenario is not heavily-multi-threaded and not even close.(which many believe).
Skype use little to no resources, must of the tabs are idling and music are surely running on a format with little overhead.
EDIT: The only situation where Windows does things intelligently is when you start loading several applications and they're all intensive; at that point the distribution starts getting intelligent.
+1, use the money you save for a better cooler or ... you know don't spend them.