Agreed. When I design a new PC, I don't look for the highest performance system, I look for performance per dollar. This chart is very useful: http://www.cpuben

Agreed. When I design a new PC, I don't look for the highest performance system, I look for performance per dollar. This chart is very useful: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html When designing a new PC about a year ago, I went with an eight-core AMD FX-8320. Which was significantly cheaper than an equally fast Intel i5 or i7 CPU (although the per-thread performance is only half of a 4-core i5/i7 with the same Passmark score).