If you do image editing and want the best bang for your buck then an AMD FX 8 core cpu would be an excellent choice as long you can pay the power bill and don't have anything against AMD :D
I'm currently using a 3930K upgraded from a i5 750 and i7 920, what a world of difference once you start...
I recently upgraded from 920 stock to 3930K stock for video editing and 3d rendering, for gaming I dont think I saw that much of a difference in BF3, but I could tell that it was running alittle bit smoother. I'm also a multitask whore and always have more than 4 apps up at the sametime. Usually...
Forgot to mention that rebooting with other firmware sometimes doesn't change anything and it was worst with 1.35A which was choke lagging even after 3 reboots when playing SC2.
Alittle update on the Dir 655 A4.
After having tested this router for about 1.5year, I can conclude that any other firmware than 1.21 for this unit makes it unreliable if and only if you have more than 2 wifi constantly connected playing games / torrenting at the sametime. I've tried all...