I bought this because I need a computational CPU but found a Xeon too boring. There is little more to say about this thing. With ten cores, certain CPU-intensive tasks (like SOME [not all] 3d rendering and large databases) run faster than on any other I7, but games most assuredly do not. This CPU is therefore a compromise and only time will tell if I judge it worthwhile. The price is totally stupid in any context except the complete absence of competition (which, with AMD claiming new high-clock speed CPUs, may be ending). I suspect that in a year this thing will be collecting dust and I'll regret the decision, but for the moment, C'est la vie.
Still, I neither fault Intel (rather do I laud the effort to offer as strange a product as this), and I would not argue the decision to purchase necessarily irrational. It DOES balance several competing 'needs' in a high-performance package and it does have its place. It is good at gaming, great at computation and if you can afford it, offers a great way to dump two grand on a hunk of metal about the size of a silver dollar.
| Processor | 3 GHz core_i7 |
|---|---|
| Hard Drive | 128 GB |
| Card Description | integrated |
