Are High-End CPUs Worth The Money?

Rampaging Goatbert (aka Jeff Feld) has posted a story at Newsforge about something you may want to argue about with your boss or significant other. Specifically, whether high-end CPUs are worth their high prices. Personally, I look even lower on the processor food chain, but watching those price-curve inflection points makes the runner-up chips pretty tempting. Your mileage will almost certainly vary.

Comments

$33 to be the best? Hell yeah (you 1.33Ghz losers)

[IvyMike]

If your decision is between a 1.33Ghz athlon and and 1.4Ghz athlon, and the price difference is only $33, then of course it's worth it to get the 1.4Ghz! Otherwise, every time your friends use the system and say, "Wow, that's really fast! What is it, a 1.4Ghz?" you have to bow your head in shame and say, "No...it's a 1.33Ghz." You might as well throw Windows ME on it! When you're getting the hot rod of systems, it's not about bean-counting, it's about style.

Treadmilling

[r_j_prahad]

Almost as quickly as Intel or AMD can release a faster CPU, Microsoft releases an OS that runs like shit on anything less. If the CPU designers don't keep pounding relentlessly away at Moore's law, we could theoritically have an OS from Redmond that won't run on anything.

Wouldn't that be nice.

Re:$33 to be the best? Hell yeah (you 1.33Ghz lose

[robbins!]

Plus, the extra .07 Ghz really helps your dating profile.

Re:You cost $300,000 a year?

[Doomdark]

That'd be a good justification for installing workstations in the bathrooms. Or maybe toilets at the cubicles.

Hehe. Nice idea... But how well would it go with the "paperless office" ideas? About the first idea... umh... having work stations with Internet access in restrooms sounds kind of kinky.

Re:google

[MAXOMENOS]

In some cases it makes sense to have a single blazing fast cpu.

Take Mozilla for example....