q6600 vs other quads

[maroon1]

^ correct mine has 3mb per 2 cores or 1.5mb per core.

The 3MB is shared between two cores

So, one core can use up to 3MB cache

 

[Hussein19891]

The 3MB is shared between two cores

So, one core can use up to 3MB cache

Which means the other core gets to use 0MB cache.

 

[patonb]

AMDs are true quads... or tris...

 

[Trotter]

See, I didn't know of any this.
Where can I go about learning all this?
Is there a book on the latest technology with brief explanations like this?

Sorry for thread jacking, but it was already answered, and its relevant

Actually, no, there's not a book. Unfortunately.

Most of this information is distilled from press releases, news articles, blogs, and informed posts. That's not a lot of help, I know, but that's the size of it. Your best bet to start getting "up to speed" would be to start following and digging in some good sources.

I use DailyRotation (DAILY ROTATION) as my source. DR is an aggregate news source, with feeds from over 300 sources. Choose the number of headlines you want (I use 100), and the specific source headlines, and away you go.

 

[PuRpLeSmUrF]

This will also help you on what your look for Tenen.

Intel Core 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Has a plethora of information on Core 2 Duo CPUs and some info on Core i7 as well.

I felt very informed and a bit more upto date after reading it myself.

 

[Nagasama]

Which means the other core gets to use 0MB cache.

that doesnt matter. the cpu will assign processes cache space as they need them. how much cache a program uses is not dependent on the cpu. its dependent on the program.