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Is the amd dual core processor a giant leap or a skip

post #1 of 11
11/16/05 at 2:58pm
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I'm tired of the next chip always being a smudge better than the last, where 2 top of the line computers built 2 years share a small difference in performance. I want to buy a laptop that will last as long as a desktop. Is this dual core AMD chip all the hype or just something to excite AMID stockholders?
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post #2 of 11
11/16/05 at 9:06pm
its legit.. however from a gaming and applications point of view it requires developers to make the programs for the chip... meaning that at present there arent to many things using the dual core capability....

Its the future for the time being though so many will jump on board im sure
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post #3 of 11
11/16/05 at 11:27pm
For dual core, you can't really go back to single core if you're a heavy multitasker. You can run a lot of processor-intensive applications all at once and not feel any lag while switching in between it often. Highly recommended if you really strain your computer a lot. Unless you specifically run only one program at a time and want to be economical, dual core would be the way to go.
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post #4 of 11
11/17/05 at 11:54pm
its seems like a giant leap, but imo its not really a giant leap until we have 200 cores on a single die plus 200 vid cores...heh
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post #5 of 11
11/18/05 at 1:07am
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Do the Hyper Thread chips compare to the dual cores? Theoretically it sounds like they work the almost the same
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post #6 of 11
11/18/05 at 2:09am
hyper thread doesn't nearly compare to the dual-core chips. Right now the two best (consumer) chips that you can possibly buy are the FX-57 and the X2 4800+. The FX-57 is best for single processes (such as doing nothing but running a single game), but in every other aspect the X2 kicks all major ass, and is only very slightly behind the FX-57 in gaming.
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post #7 of 11
11/18/05 at 10:01am
I would think that at some point, game developers will make good use of dual core CPUs since the market is moving towards dual core, but current games don't make good use of that technology...
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post #8 of 11
11/18/05 at 1:48pm
Some games now are even optimized for dual-core, theres an article about them over at xbitlabs.com
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/
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post #9 of 11
11/18/05 at 9:51pm
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Originally Posted by amelexia
Do the Hyper Thread chips compare to the dual cores? Theoretically it sounds like they work the almost the same
Hyperthreading was designed to be a cheap alternative to SMP (Xeon, Opteron). Unfortunately it was not very good at what it did. Multithreaded programs would see little to no performance boost and some single threaded programs would actually run slower than with HT disabled.

Dual core is the next evolutionary step. It is much more on par with what an SMP system can do. Well it was until they released Dual Core server/workstation chips. The new Xeons are Dual core and have hyperthreading, so windows would see two of these as eight processors.
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post #10 of 11
11/18/05 at 11:00pm
Which means octopenetration without any slow down!!!!
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post #11 of 11
11/19/05 at 12:30am
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