what is your strategy for quad-core?

I'm thinking that I will upgrade to a quad core system some time later
this year. (see my other message about this). But I'm aware that it's
early in the market for quad-core, and I'll admit that I haven't been
following the developments in detail.

If you have, or are planning to get quad-core in 2008, what is your
strategy? Why?

I've been a loyal and very happy ASUS customer since the P55 TP 4 (or
something like that.) Considering the way that ASUS has been
supporting quad-core, what current ASUS board would you get today?
Again, considering how well (or not well) ASUS supports AMD, etc.,
would you wait for an AMD-based board, or an Intel-based board but a
non-Intel chipset.

I'm not a gamer, but I'm getting very seriously into Photoshop with
very large image files. Say 14 MB for a Nikon RAW file from a D3, and
sometimes 120 MB files from a Nikon film scanner.

thanks. I know I can count on the guys in this group. That's why I'm
asking the questions here and not in some of the "crazies" groups on
the net.

--AH

"Andrew Hamilton" <Ahamilton90900 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm thinking that I will upgrade to a quad core system some time later
> this year. (see my other message about this). But I'm aware that it's
> early in the market for quad-core, and I'll admit that I haven't been
> following the developments in detail.
>
> If you have, or are planning to get quad-core in 2008, what is your
> strategy? Why?
>
> I've been a loyal and very happy ASUS customer since the P55 TP 4 (or
> something like that.) Considering the way that ASUS has been
> supporting quad-core, what current ASUS board would you get today?
> Again, considering how well (or not well) ASUS supports AMD, etc.,
> would you wait for an AMD-based board, or an Intel-based board but a
> non-Intel chipset.
>
> I'm not a gamer, but I'm getting very seriously into Photoshop with
> very large image files. Say 14 MB for a Nikon RAW file from a D3, and
> sometimes 120 MB files from a Nikon film scanner.
>
> thanks. I know I can count on the guys in this group. That's why I'm
> asking the questions here and not in some of the "crazies" groups on
> the net.
>
> --AH


I recently built a new system with a quad core processor and put it in an
Asus Extreme Stricker motherboard, it works great with a PNY 8800GT video
card.
I purchased the quad because of performance versus price. When I looked at
the bench marks of the extreme processors that cost around $1,000 and saw
that the quad processor's performance was right behind them I couldn't
resist the $279 price tag. It runs so flawlessly that I'm about to buy a
second PNY 8800GT video card and take advantage of the SLI technology.