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What is the advantages of a core duo?

post #1 of 5
5/10/06 at 5:38am
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As the thread ask what are the advantages of a core duo and should I wait another month or 2 for it? Thanks for any help and opinoins.
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post #2 of 5
5/10/06 at 10:36am
one core.

no seriously its just another core. so in specific applications the load can be balanced between those 2 cores and you can get better performance. at the moment you will not see any significant gain in performance in games but its pretty nice to have for the future.
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post #3 of 5
5/10/06 at 11:25am
Some applications are written that do the balancing between the core and multi tasking performance will be pretty much like the P4.
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post #4 of 5
5/10/06 at 7:16pm
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Originally Posted by cyke1
As the thread ask what are the advantages of a core duo and should I wait another month or 2 for it? Thanks for any help and opinoins.

I have an old P4 3ghz (northwood core) and my roommate has an Athlon 64 3700+

We both have a gig of ram and comparable hard drives. I have a radeon x850XT PE and he has the 7800GS OC. I think our systems are pretty close as far as components go.

I can switch tasks (like out of ram hog games) instantly and his system takes forever. I multitask better, even if his cpu is supposedly faster with games.

You'd see the same sort of improvement over a single core system (as mine has over a single thread cpu)
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post #5 of 5
5/11/06 at 4:36pm
I'll give you an example where CoreDuo helps TODAY: I exported a report from a website and although it had an .xls extension indicating that it was an Excel file, it was actually in an HTML format. The report was 18mb, and when I opened it on my 1.78GHz Pentium M it consumed the machine for 15 minutes. I could not do anything else while Excel reformated it for further use. Opening it on a T2300 (1.66GHz) machine, one CPU was pegged, but the machine remained completely responsive and I was able to continue working without having to go take a break.
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