Originally Posted By: Joe V
For the processor - is money better spent on more cores, or less cores with higher clock speeds?

More cores as more processing can be handled at the same time. Multiple cores usually do not have that much smaller of clock speed.


Originally Posted By: Joe V
I'm not sure how to find out whether, when the apps for each of these are running at the same time - whether they will take advantage of multiple cores and/or hyperthreading.

Your machine will normally have it's own method to decide but you can right-click on a process in Task Manager and direct it to which processors are being used. I've got 8 cores and only split the cores manually one time. Windows manages it pretty well.




Steve

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