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Originally Posted by William W. Holcomb
Now you're way over my head. What's a 45nm penryn and what will that do for me? I've been into computers since the early 80's - back to the Commodore VIC-20. I built my own for many years (back when a 386DX33 with 4mb RAM was considered high-end.)
But in recent years I've gotten away from DIY and just purchased pre-made systems. Maybe it's time to getting back to my computing roots!
Do you think anyone would be interested in a used Q6600 if I decided to sell?
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The Penyrn (Wolfdale / Yorkfield) line is Intels new line of CPU's that will hit the market by years end. The current Quads ar3 65nm. These new CPU's are not a huge jump like P4 to C2D but they are a significant improvment. More then enough to justify selling and saving for the Penyrn. Oh shoot I almost forgot....they have SSE4 instruction set which is going to be a huge thing for video encoding. Much faster then previous SSE 3 and <. Not to mention they run much cooler then the 65nm do to the drop in size and they have a large FSB.