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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10512 |  blppt (193) Jun 01, 2006 - 07:55 pm
| I was not referring to anything being multithreaded. Matter of fact, my example was with two non-multithread apps. Just about everybody out there has tried to do two processor-hogging programs/tasks at once, and dual core/dual cpu definitely helps if you manage affinity (which takes all of about 5 seconds with task manager, or 15 seconds and never again with imagecfg).
Of course, this is more beneficial to some of us than others. Still, I think the average consumer would do such things as burning a DVD at high speed while watching a video, surfing the net, whatever, at the same time.
The mere fact that two ancient Tbred 2400+ cpus (hacked XPs) on an ancient DDR266 AMD760 chipset let you have a responsive, smooth system in my example, when a relatively modern Barton 3200 on a DDR400 nforce2 chokes in the same (not unusual, even for the average computer user) situation should tell us that even if programs are never fully dual-core optimized, there is good use for dual core/dual cpu systems in everyday life. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10512 | blppt (193) Jun 01, 2006 - 01:46 pm
| Ehhh, Dual Core/Dual CPU does make doing multiple tasks at once a lot smoother. For example, try doing on-the-fly high compression WMV taping of TV shows, and pretty much anything else at the same time. I end up with a stuttery (is that a word?) recording on my single core XP 3200+ system.
The same process on my dual MP 2400+ system would have no problem at all if you assign a specific cpu to the video recorder (easily done with the imagecfg.exe utility permanently, or task manager on-the-fly).
I've never had an Intel Hyperthreading CPU, so i dont know how effective a virtual 2nd cpu would be in this situation, but dual cpu (and dual core) definitely makes a difference in some everyday non-multithreaded tasks. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10494 | blppt (193) Jun 01, 2006 - 10:22 am
| PS2 already had a linux distro and it did not really make any headway into the PC realm of things, despite Kuturgi's insistance that the EE was far more powerful than PC processors.
And people, console makers have been spewing this "goodbye PC" propaganda for like 10 years now, and nothing has become of it. Remember the public outcry when Dreamcast came with a browser? Yeah, that turned out great for Sega, even with the kickass library of games as well. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10481 | blppt (193) May 31, 2006 - 02:56 pm
| "Dell sucks. They make crappy computers and exagerate them or make them seem as powerful because it has a popular intel processor."
Maybe the Dimension lines....but then again, you can apply that to any major brand's consumer pcs. I dont think Dull is any worse in comparison to any other major consumer computer maker.
The OptiPlexs we have at work had nothing on them except a barebones install of win2000 (or XP) when they arrived. And they are rock stable for workstation use---surviving many IE5/6 and tnvt crashes over 100 days of uptime with no ill effects. Matter of fact, I was just recently at 170 days uptime before the MIS department decided to install new antivirus stuff and reboot my PC. :-(
No, not a Dull fanatic. But they *can* make a damn solid workstation if they try. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10481 | blppt (193) May 31, 2006 - 10:47 am
| This isnt really new....Packard Bell used to be the kings of installing shovelware onto new pcs....to the point where they would crash repeatedly for it.
My theory is that it gets dimwitted consumers to upgrade their RAM, CPU, harddisks directly from Dell or (insert major computer manufacturer here). Flag this | Edit this post |
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