{"id":292,"date":"2008-01-30T20:19:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/going-quad-core\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:19:59","slug":"going-quad-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/going-quad-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Quad Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image align-right\"><a href='http:\/\/unitstep.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/new-computer-parts.jpg' title='new computer parts'><img src='http:\/\/unitstep.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/new-computer-parts.thumbnail.jpg' alt='new computer parts' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been over 1.5 years since I <a href=\"\/blog\/2006\/05\/28\/new-computer\/\">built my current computer<\/a>, and back then it was pretty decent.  Heck, it&#8217;s still pretty decent right now and there&#8217;s no <em>real<\/em> reason why I decided to upgrade, other than the fact that I had the upgrade itch.  So, that&#8217;s why last week I ordered a bunch of components (again from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncix.com\/\">Netlink Computers<\/a>) to build a new computer with.  The parts arrived yesterday, after some <a href=\"\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/good-and-bad-companies\/\">haggling with Purolator<\/a>, but everything seems to be in good shape and I&#8217;m excited to put things together!<\/p>\n<p>I decided to go with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor.  Why?  Well, it was a sweet price &#8211; $270 &#8211; and it&#8217;s <em>quad-core<\/em>.  Just the name sounds so badass &#8211; it&#8217;s reminiscent of the &#8220;Quad Damage&#8221; power up of the Quake FPS series, and heck, quad is better than dual, no?  But let&#8217;s be real here &#8211; I probably have no real need for a quad-core processor, and claims of future-proofing may be dubious at best.  After all, I am on a roughly two-year upgrade cycle, so by the time quad-core becomes commonplace (like dual-core is right now) I will most likely have upgraded to a new CPU.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However I do use my computer for a lot.  In addition to gaming, (which currently does not benefit from a quad-core CPU, generally), I use my machine as a development box, and often have many programs running in the background, such as Apache, MySQL and the like.  I have no real evidence to suggest that quad-core might help in this situation, but maybe it will.  One thing is for sure though &#8211; single-core CPUs just don&#8217;t cut it anymore, even for regular desktop work &#8211; the advantages of going dual-core are easily visible.  <\/p>\n<p>In any event, I&#8217;m hoping to start putting together the parts sometime this week, but most likely will have to wait for the weekend to get everything fully assembled and up and running. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over 1.5 years since I built my current computer, and back then it was pretty decent. Heck, it&#8217;s still pretty decent right now and there&#8217;s no real reason why I decided to upgrade, other than the fact that I had the upgrade itch. So, that&#8217;s why last week I ordered a bunch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[133,9,207],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}