Cores and chips. Read reviews is best way to find out how data travels from them but the Motherboard is the one that moves it around.
Dual ans Quad are imho (even though have 2 quad Intel chips) are gone by with the advent of 16 cores.
You keep straying from what I have suggested. Shipped within 4 days
I am a solid believer in spending your money once. Not do will get later. Later never comes.
@ PK :-
Whilst your insights and recommendations are always appreciated - after all, I recommended you for the Advisor's position on this basis - you DO rather tend to assume that everybody can afford to throw money at top-end, high-spec computer hardware. This is not always the case, as I'm sure you're aware. ! 
Like many Linux users - the choice of which is usually engendered by disillusionment with M$'s way of doing things! - I compute on a budget. I've never had the amount of money to "throw at" computing that I might perhaps like; indeed, keeping a roof over my head, clothes on my back & food in my belly has always taken a far higher priority. The fact that Linux permits keeping much older hardware still useful & functional is simply a bonus, of course......and means that I don't HAVE to cripple myself financially in order to "keep up with the Jones's". 
(I'm no gamer, although I do enjoy wasting the odd half-hour on occasion. My preference for indie games also means that my "low-tier" Intel Pentium G5400 & Asus GeForce GT710 are perfectly capable of coping with them. Things like Xonotic, RedEclipse and UrbanTerror define the extent of MY gaming 'involvement'. I'm more than happy with this stuff.)
It's always helpful to try and work with people within their financial envelope. Yes, we can all dream, but at the end of the day, practicality has to take pole position...
Mike. 
Edited by Mike_Walsh, 13 April 2024 - 06:37 AM.
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