I suspect they are both great. You might try Tom's Hardware and their CPU charts but you'll have to choose a benchmark that you think it right. There are a couple of audio and video transcoding charts, along with many others. http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-desktop-cpu-charts/benchmarks,60.html - Mark On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gah, I hate computer shopping. Now I have read that the aforementioned Turbo > Boost on these chips is problematic on linux anyway. So I'm back to not > knowing which of the i7 920 or i7 860 is a better choice for linux audio. > All opinions welcome. > > thanks > Iain > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
