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Perhaps you should do a little research?

Unless you are running an OS such as MSDOS no process on a PC owns the CPU. As long as other processes are running you benefit from additional cores. While it is true you could artificially jack up the priority of any task in your system no commercial product does that on its own and I am not even certain that you would know how that it is done. Using raw clock speed to process data in a serial fashion does not scale well. Serial processing is the simplest way of accomplishing a task, but there is no reason that your ?speed critical? applications could not be written to use multithreading and realize greater performance gains.

Which system do you think would process your ?speed critical? application faster, a single core running at 4GHz (about the fastest possible speed you will get from Intel) or two 3 GHz cores? Your serial processed task would run faster on the 4GHz core, but the same task rewritten to use multiple cores might outperform your single core application on the 2 3 GHz cores and would blow your 4GHz processor way if you had 4 cores. If you spend a few more dollars you could get a 4 processor dual core system (8 cores) that would make your 4GHz machine look like it was not turned on.

Posted by: balsover   Posted on: 07/28/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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