TigerJimmy said:

Quote:
Skip the dual CPUs since most home applications don't make good use of them anyhow, from what I understand.


Oh, trust me. I'm not running "home applications" on this PC. I'll be doing some dev work on it -- which requires running multiple applications. I'll also probably be running Virtual Server which really benefits from multiple CPUs.

wfaulk said:

Quote:
The only time you run into problems is when you have a single-threaded CPU hog, like LAME.


All of my music is currently FLAC encoded. So when I change something, it gets re-encoded as MP3. This means that I have two CPU-bound processes running in a pipeline anyway (flac | lame). Oddly, I get better performance (on a single CPU) when I turn the priority of both processes down...
_________________________
-- roger