8 Cores on a Budget- Building a Better Workstation

I admit with great indignity that I had been something of a sleeper cell in the world of computer hardware for the past few years. There was a time, quite recently, when I was very much “up†on things. I was the neighborhood go-to-guy for advice on what to buy and where to buy it from. But by the time 2008 rolled by, months ago, not so much. Given, it’s a bit of a relief not to be the pro bono IT-public-defender I once was, but almost five years had passed since my last desktop purchase–and seven since my last notebook–and it felt like it was about time that I got myself some Cliff notes to cram for the final.