Which Processor offers the best speed and durability to price ratio?

[Daal]

Any studies on this?

 

[GTS]

durability ?

 

[Bolimomo]

Quote from GTS:

durability ?

Durability: [def] The ability of the processor to stand the sudden and forceful but repetitive pounding and slapping from frustrated traders during losing trades.

 

[WinstonTJ]

there are tons of blogs and benchmarks out there.

what are you looking for - porsche or tractor?

 

[promagma]

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Intel Core i7-3820 and AMD FX-8150 are looking good right now.

 

[Daal]

Quote from promagma:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Are AMD processors less durable?Because they consistently beat Intel on the bang for the buck criteria yet AFAIK they have much less R&D then Intel

 

[promagma]

All processors are durable... they rarely die short of being zapped by lightening. Given the same Ghz, Intel is faster than AMD. The web page I posted gives the bottom-line comparison.

 

[GTS]

I've never had a processor fail on me.

Unless you are planning on testing the thermal limits of a processor by overclocking it big time I don't really understand this durability aspect you are referring to.

 

[easymon1]

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ compares the price performance of CPUs

 

[Xspurt]

I remember reading research on this from years back but I'm sure it holds good for today.

It said a CPU has a safe life expectancy of 10 yrs but overclocking can reduce this to 7 years. We can forget about keeping a CPU for 7 years so the question about durability is not an issue, unless you use extreme loads and don't cool the CPU properly or drop test your system box from a great height after a bad trade.