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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer? by bhouston on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:41AM (#9538826)
I have an Intel Core i7 4930K with simple auto-overclocking, its pretty sweet. I would suggest for software development, you can stick with the high end Core i7s that are usually priced around $500 - $800 per CPU.

If I was to buy a new CPU today, I'd buy this one:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5930K...

I also have quad channel OC memory on my motherboard, the quad channel part is actually significant in terms of compile speed (and the OC part isn't I found out.)

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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer? by kromlic on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:30PM (#9540118)
Just installed that CPU into my work computer a couple months ago, and it's indeed quite a fantastic deal overall. It's really easy to see the benefit from having a fast workstation, even if you're not developing extremely resource-intensive applications.
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