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Originally Posted by Pimp Racer
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
Useless.....................it'll be a long time till anyone starts writting multicore code for anything............
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Second that. I dont even think there is any program for everyday people that is written to take advantage of both cores, let alone 4 cores. |
Well, there is still an advantage - on a multi-core/proc system with the right O/S you can assign an app/process to have an affinity with a certain proc/core.
So while you will not do any signle thing quicker on a 4ghz multi-core than you could on a 4ghz single core, you could simply do more of the same at once on the multi-core.
We did some experiments a couple yeasr back, and on an 8cpu dual-core system we managed to render 14 videos at 2ghz or so, took no quicker than a 2ghz single core, excpet you got 14 times the work done with 2 free cores for keeping outlook opne and browsing the web
Of course the 32GB ram and superfast ULTRAWide SCSI array of 10 disks heped as well