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Quad vs Duo core and OS install question

  • 02-09-2007 11:52pm
    #1
    pertinax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭


    I am wondering will I get any benefit from having a quad 2.4 when no games support it? Would I be better off if I got a duo 3.0? In the future games will suport a quad but I don't know if it'll be worth it. What I'm wondering is a duo 3.0 faster than a quad 2.4 if a game is not optimized for quads? I would like to use the pc for media and graphics and I usually like to open several things at once which just crashes my current dinosaur.

    Also I was planning on getting a customized komplett Gamer without the OS. After all I could just use up winxp and use that. If I knew how to do it which I don't, so may I ask how do I do it?

    I wonder if vista is worth it, Is it more stable than XP?


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I think the only applications that use a quad core are certain video encoding applications. As for having a load if windows open at once, a dual core would be more than adequate.


  • #3
    Dorsanty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Dorsanty


    Once and application is designed and compiled to be threaded it is then down to the OS kernel to balance the tasks across the processors. A non-threaded app has to be run on a single core only.

    Therefore if a program is designed for dual core it is really designed for multi core. I can't answer to the availability or even optimization of todays apps for multi core systems.

    I can say that I've never max'd out both my cores for any sustained length of time even when encoding a vid.

    As for having 4 cores today. Intel's quad core isn't the prettiest solution. It's really a pair of dual core processors. So the processor's on board logic can't divide tasks to the 4 cores. Instead the tasks are first handed to one of the pairs of cores and then the internal logic will assign the task to one of the cores.

    You'll get better results from AMD's Phenom procs when they come out. The internal logic has the option of assigning tasks to all 4 cores.

    Having said that, I think it's a little early to be getting 4 cores in a desktop machine.


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