can someone tell me, which will soon be fastest budget comp?

[S.Taylor]

If I will be ready to purchase a new computer within the next few months, which will soon be the fastest cpu, which will soon become old enough to go down to budget price?
Lap-top, desk-top, handheld,.....

[M ANSARI]

What is your budget? You can probably get a good Phenom or Q6600 system for around $600.

[S.Taylor]

What is your budget? You can probably get a good Phenom or Q6600 system for around $600.

Budget is quite low, but would be pushed, according to estimation of how I feel and can organize payment, depending on how good I feel about what i'm getting and its value for money. And speed, is of major importance.
Is Q6600 equivalent to 8 proccessors of 32 bit?

[gerold]

If I will be ready to purchase a new computer within the next few months, which will soon be the fastest cpu, which will soon become old enough to go down to budget price?
Lap-top, desk-top, handheld,.....

HP Pavilion Elite m9600t
intel i7-920
4gb DDR3 memory
500 gb HD
512 mb Nvidia Graphics card.

Price will come down on this one.
Its around $900 now.

[Yar]

What is your budget? You can probably get a good Phenom or Q6600 system for around $600.

Budget is quite low, but would be pushed, according to estimation of how I feel and can organize payment, depending on how good I feel about what i'm getting and its value for money. And speed, is of major importance.
Is Q6600 equivalent to 8 proccessors of 32 bit?

You can find benchmarks of different processors here:
http://www.sedatchess.com/hardwares.html

[M ANSARI]

What is your budget? You can probably get a good Phenom or Q6600 system for around $600.

Budget is quite low, but would be pushed, according to estimation of how I feel and can organize payment, depending on how good I feel about what i'm getting and its value for money. And speed, is of major importance.
Is Q6600 equivalent to 8 proccessors of 32 bit?

Well the latest processors allow you to use 64bit OS which is alone about a 60% increase in performance for Rybka. obviously then having 4 cores adds to the power. Using a Core i7 brings performance even higher, although i would recommend that you buy the items seperately and have someone build it for you. That would allow you to get the performance of an Octa at much less price.

Someone on Rybka mentioned that the i7 920 processors are on sale for around $200 ... and to that a $200 motherboard and another $100 for fast 6 GB DDR 3 memory and you have a fantastic upgrade to your existing system for around $500 to $600 if you factor in good air cooling (very important for fast clocks).

[Peter Skinner]

Intel Q8200 (2.33Ghz) 4M L2 Core 2 Quad Processor
Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Mother Board (Open PCI-E Slot)
Kingston 3GB 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
500GB SATA II Hard Drive
22x SATA DVD Dual Layer Burner
Integrated Video
Integrated 6 Ch Audio
Integrated Gigabit Lan
6x USB 2.0 Port (4x R 2xF)
17" Black Tower Case w/450W PS

$499 CDN. Not half bad...

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Intel Q8200 (2.33Ghz) 4M L2 Core 2 Quad Processor
Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Mother Board (Open PCI-E Slot)
Kingston 3GB 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
500GB SATA II Hard Drive
22x SATA DVD Dual Layer Burner
Integrated Video
Integrated 6 Ch Audio
Integrated Gigabit Lan
6x USB 2.0 Port (4x R 2xF)
17" Black Tower Case w/450W PS

$499 CDN. Not half bad...

Yes,the Q8200 is quite cheap,but it's L2 cache is low and it's performance is not as it should be....
Dr.D