Equivalent to Core2Quad

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Dolby

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So I need to spec a PC equivalent to the one I lost in lightning / surge something :/

I bought it about 4 or 5 years back for R8,000+ for just the box assembled by someone on the forum - so was a quite a decent PC back then. Retail pricing was R11,000+

It was a Q9300 Core2Quad 2.5ghz with 4GB RAM and 1TB HDD. Most importantly - and as per my other thread - I had SPDIF out which I need.

Something like an i5 is equivalent nowadays?
 
The Core2Duo was mid high range back in the day. The Core2Quad was high end, what cpu was higer end in that line?

Today that will be i3 budget; i5 mid and i7 high end
 
So i7 would be the equivalent ...
 
Dolby said:
So i7 would be the equivalent ...
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i7 not really useful unless the programs you're running support hyper-threading which 99% of programs do not so spending R1000 on an i7 over an i5 is useless, get yourself a big bad i5 and you'll be fine
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
i7 not really useful unless the programs you're running support hyper-threading which 99% of programs do not
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Programs just need to be threaded, there is not specific need to "support hyper-threading".

Your 99% stat is way off the mark. Open your task manager go to the process tab and add a column for threads. Out of the 113 processes I've got running, exactly zero of them are running just one thread.

It does however depend on the programmer managing to spread the work-load across threads. i.e. no point in having 10 threads if one does all the work. For things like games this becomes an issue...you can't always split things in a clean balanced fashion.
 
HavocXphere said:
Programs just need to be threaded, there is not specific need to "support hyper-threading".

Your 99% stat is way off the mark. Open your task manager go to the process tab and add a column for threads. Out of the 113 processes I've got running, exactly zero of them are running just one thread.

It does however depend on the programmer managing to spread the work-load across threads. i.e. no point in having 10 threads if one does all the work. For things like games this becomes an issue...you can't always split things in a clean balanced fashion.
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Well there we go, feel free to ignore me;) thnx for the info!!!
 
Just go with the simplest route here - cash value equivalent. A Q9300 was $230 when it launched (it was the cheapest quad core part I think); that's all you need to know. The equivalent CPU now would be, depending if you're going 1150 or 1155, an i5-4440 or an i5-3470.
 
Dolby said:
So I need to spec a PC equivalent to the one I lost in lightning / surge something :/

I bought it about 4 or 5 years back for R8,000+ for just the box assembled by someone on the forum - so was a quite a decent PC back then. Retail pricing was R11,000+

It was a Q9300 Core2Quad 2.5ghz with 4GB RAM and 1TB HDD. Most importantly - and as per my other thread - I had SPDIF out which I need.

Something like an i5 is equivalent nowadays?
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For insurance purposes? I would reckon an i7 Haswell Quad Core would be something you'd need to replace you CPU with now.

Not a 6 core or something but a quad core.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+Q9300+@+2.50GHz
 
I would think an i5 would be the equivalent.

Also, regarding hyper threading, if a program "supports" hyper threading, it typically means it is aware that some cores are logical and some physical, so it might make sure that it puts certain threads on certain cores. I think. I've never written code specifically for hyper threading before.
 
cerebus said:
Not to a q9300. It was a very low end C2Q.
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Remember that you must look at the large picture. i7s also come with 6 and even 8 cores. Core2 topped at 4 cores (? 6). So you have to shift the CPUs relatively.
 
It certainly wasn't very priced very low end back then :/

Thanks guys!
 
Dolby said:
It certainly wasn't very priced very low end back then :/

Thanks guys!
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No, not low end at all. It was $230 when it launched. That's mid-range, and you should try to get a midrange i5 now to replace it. You'll still get 2x the performance of that piece. Q9550 would be equivalent to today's 3770.
 
Ancalagon said:
I would think an i5 would be the equivalent.

Also, regarding hyper threading, if a program "supports" hyper threading, it typically means it is aware that some cores are logical and some physical, so it might make sure that it puts certain threads on certain cores. I think. I've never written code specifically for hyper threading before.
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Nee thats not quite right. The allocation of thread :: core is done OS side. You can force it to some extent in the task manager though. Right click > Affinity and uncheck cores...of limited usefulness though.

Threading code can become pretty hairy fast if you need to communicate between the threads. Basic threading is straightforward though.
 
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