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Performance is a tricky issue. There is measurable performance, and then there is the intangible "feel" of computing. Yes, it's all well and good that a multithreaded video encoding program can encode in half the time if you double the number of processors, but how often do you do that?

I would say the computing experience going from one core to two is significant. I did this roughly 5 years ago when I built my dual Athlon system. Even now my home system "feels" fast compared to any single core/single processor machine I've used, even ones at higher GHz ratings.

The main andvantage is that you don't have the same contention issues if you have 2 processors. Since the contention issues are already gone at 2, going from 2 to 4 will not create a noticeable difference for most people. It will be a major boon for PCs that are constantly running multi-threaded CPU intensive tasks such as some servers and may make it possible to make 16 or 32 "processor" systems by just adding a few CPUs.

Posted by: boxmonkey   Posted on: 09/27/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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