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Amd Vs. pentium

Patricide · 2005-07-05 00:07:16

Hey i recently was told that pentium processors are total **** when compared to amd processors espectially in the gaming department even when they have fewer GHZ can someone please explain this to me cuz im confusted on this issiue.also (going off topic ,again!) what is the meaning of overclocking a pc and what are the…

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#92 11-07-2005 08:18PM

secret_squirrel

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MrPinK wrote:

This could be 2 or 20 threads, and will vary during the executiuon of the program.

Depends what you need the threads for - if its a calculation type task that breaks down into threadable chunks you might as well only create as many threads as you have processors. Or arguably 1 less than the total number of processors.

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#93 11-07-2005 10:57PM

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secret_squirrel wrote:

if its a calculation type task that breaks down into threadable chunks you might as well only create as many threads as you have processors.

If you knew for sure that it was always going to be run on a certain number of CPU's, then yes. But having more threads than processors will allow for increased performance in future as more processors are added. There's no real benefit to limiting it.

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