Two Core CPUs- Good or Bad for home users?

[madmunki]

or you a mutitasker and use multiple applications at the same time like I do.

or here one for the gamers have you ever sundenly started going slow because your firewall or virus scanner starting doing some thing well with dual core the secound core can take care of it and not affect your gaming.

Not necessarly true. Only true if your Firewall/Virus Scanner supports dual-cpu/multi-threading.

On dual-core/multi-cpu/Hyper-Threaded/etc systems, the task manager will show you the cpu usage. It reports it as another processor. This allows you to see your benefit of it.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

I don't think there is any games that support dual CPU's. The next gen consoles are going to make it the norm. though.

You also need to buy XP Pro to run 2 cores.

Not true, the game developers do not want to use all their new cores...

 

[mgoldb2]

Not necessarly true. Only true if your Firewall/Virus Scanner supports dual-cpu/multi-threading.

Firewall does not have to be mutithread. Windows will divide all the threads up. Thread one game, Thread two Firewall.

I cant show that exact test but here someone running I-tunes, firefox and bittorrent while playing a game.


Notice how even the penium dual core does better then the athlon 64 fx-55 when doing major mutitasking while gaming.

fine I give up trying to get that pic to work so do it this way

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2410&p=13

 

[madmunki]

The August 2005 edition of Computer Power User (CPU) Magazine has a nice front page article on this.

 

[4W4K3]

They already have 4-processor Opteron machines, what is this old dual core technology you speak of??? lol

http://www.mediaworkstation.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=33905

 

[madmunki]

They already have 4-processor Opteron machines, what is this old dual core technology you speak of??? lol

http://www.mediaworkstation.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=33905

Uhh... you completely missed what this conversation was about... We are not talking about the number of CPUs in a system, we are taking about the technology OF A processor, not the number of processors.

btw; I hope you dont think a four CPU machine is new, HP has had a 128 Intel Itanium processor SuperDome out for YEARS. Unisys even makes a 256 Intel Itanium CPU server.

http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/scalableservers/superdome/index.html

after a quick google, even I am outdated. lets make that s 512 processor computer:

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/features.html

 

[4W4K3]

Uhh... you completely missed what this conversation was about... We are not talking about the number of CPUs in a system, we are taking about the technology OF A processor, not the number of processors.

btw; I hope you dont think a four CPU machine is new, HP has had a 128 Intel Itanium processor SuperDome out for YEARS. Unisys even makes a 256 Intel Itanium CPU server.

http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/scalableservers/superdome/index.html

after a quick google, even I am outdated. lets make that s 512 processor computer:

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/features.html

i said first Opteron quad setup, not itanium...did u read that?

and it has everything to do with this topic. do you think they are running 4 opterons and 64GB of ram on dual core technology?

 

[madmunki]

You can order the 512 processor supercomputer with dual-core CPUs as well. What's your point?

 

[4W4K3]

You can order the 512 processor supercomputer with dual-core CPUs as well. What's your point?

Not what i meant. Is there a mobo that will hold 512 processors that the homeowner could afford? No, (well at least i've not seen one)

So far the home user is stuck with 2 core processing.

With a 4-processor mobo, that's 4 cores, which is better than 2 cores (dual core). That was my point. It IS affordable to the wealthy, Maybe $~10,000 for the entire setup. A fraction of the cost of a 512 processor super computer.

This thread is about HOME use, is it not?

 

[TheHeadFL]

I think the potential for performance increase with dual core is overrated when it comes to gaming. Many of the compute-bound tasks that games have to perform are not easily divisible.