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Old May 9th, 2008   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by PCXL-Fan View Post
e8400 is the sweet spot. If you run multiple apps at once you could go for a q9000 series q9450 quadcore. Its more expensive though.
Running lots of apps does not require more cpus (or more cores). Unless you're actually giving each app a task to chew on simultaneously.... (unlikely) then all you need is a decent amount of ram. Open apps don't take up cpu cycles, only apps in use do.
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