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Centrino Duo Question

  • 06-04-2006 11:36am
    #1
    LFCFan
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    If you have a Duo running at 1.66Ghz, would that mean each of the cores run at that speed and if so, does the machine use both cores (i.e. 3.32Ghz) at the same time when only working on 1 task and if not, why not? Ta!


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Simple answer is - it depends.

    It depends on the operating system. It depends on the program.

    AFAIK, XP does utilise them as does Linux. Programs such as video editing and games are beginning to utilise them also.


  • #3
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    No LFCFan the CPU is clocked globally at 1.66Ghz, it doesn't work that way in the manner you describe.

    In regards both cores being used some programs are multi-threaded this means they benefit from having more than one CPU/Core in the system but not all applications are. The OS itself would benefit being able to handle more applications at the same time and still keeping the applications responsive (even if the app's in question aren't multi-threaded).


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