The only CPU bound activity I have is converting HD video from MPEG2 to MPEG4.
With the i7, it is now fast enough that I can finish a project in one evening. Three years from now I’ll be drooling over the new hardware but the i7 has given me enough speed that I can live without an upgrade.
I basically wore out the cooling fans on two dual core pentium computers that I had running day and night crunching video. The older dual core computer would require over 24 hours of computing time for one project.
Of course I say that now but when next year’s systems come out all bets are off.
See #20...but notice the CPu Freq are set at 2.4.