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LAN Party Forums => Hardware Discussion => Started by: zx2slow on March 21, 2006, 04:27:15 PM
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Are they worth getting? Is there any software that will even utilize the second core?
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my next rig (after vista ships and dx10 vid cards are out) will most definitely be dualcore. Techreport.com always talks about the 'creamy smoothness' of running a dualcore system. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with them other than what i've read.
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Dualcore is amazing for non gaming use (photoshop, etc), and heavyduty multitasking.
Most games aren't coded to utilize smp, many pro apps are.
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Regardless, you won't see too many single core CPU's before too long as the industry moves towards dual and eventually quad core designs.
As this becomes the de facto standard, software will begin to take advantage of it. They haven't in the past because not many people had smp capable systems. That is all changing now.
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Quake 4 has support for dual core and it bumps the fps up pretty good. like 20% or something aorund there. Call of duty2 has support but the performance isnt nearly as jawdropping.
I think these next few cpu releases from AMD and intel are really going to up the ante. read some intel conroe previews if you don't believe me.
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AMD is acutally working on quad cores I think.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1826663,00.asp
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That really doesn't surprise me at all, I mean AMD kicks total ass to begin with. I got a AMD 64 4000+ San Diego core and I love it.
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I have noticed on slower clocked dual core machines (compared to faster single core) that windows seems to be slightly more responsive.
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I have noticed on slower clocked dual core machines (compared to faster single core) that windows seems to be slightly more responsive.
And by slightly more responsive you mean you can't tell a damn difference. :bigsmile:
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My SMP machine OWNS all
(as do the apple quad cored :D)
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Some good points are brought up here:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/23/2339253&from=rss
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I have noticed on slower clocked dual core machines (compared to faster single core) that windows seems to be slightly more responsive.
And by slightly more responsive you mean you can't tell a damn difference. :bigsmile:
If I couldn't notice a difference I wouldn't have said anything.
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I'm sticking with a faster single core rather than t slower cores,
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I think it's still a bit early to be buying dual core stuff but it won't be too much longer till a lot of software is written for it. Maybe server apps are the exception. maybe they can utilize the dual cores already?
Personally, I can't wait to see Intel and AMD duke it out for Dual core supremacy!
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CoreDuo AKA conroe, If intels benches were fair then AMD has already lost. I'll still stick with AMD because their bang for the buck cant be beat.
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CoreDuo AKA conroe, If intels benches were fair then AMD has already lost. I'll still stick with AMD because their bang for the buck cant be beat.
Well if the conroe is that much faster then I'll go with that. And there is rumors that AMD is going to up their prices in the next few weeks.
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I wasn't saying go with a slower dual over a faster single. I was making a comparision. So by that comparision a same speed dual vs. a single the dual should be better. I have only had experienced a slower dual than my machine. I have no idea how you got that I was saying go with a slower dual core. That just sounds really dumb to me.
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I wasn't saying go with a slower dual over a faster single. I was making a comparision. So by that comparision a same speed dual vs. a single the dual should be better. I have only had experienced a slower dual than my machine. I have no idea how you got that I was saying go with a slower dual core. That just sounds really dumb to me.
Can you repost that using better grammar, I expect better from you. Mite be the Korn Hangover or something.