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Intel And AMD's Dual-Core CPUs Investigated

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2004 @09:12PM from the smooshing-together dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Anandtech has a bunch of insider information concerning Intel and AMD's move to dual-core CPUs. The article has lots of great information on how the move to dual-core processors affects modern computing - in particular, Anand sees more promise in multiple CPU cores that perform different operations, rather than just stamping two identical cores on the same processor like AMD and Intel are doing now."

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Re:Yeah, not my favorate idea. by Stalks · 2004-10-23 21:59 · Score: 5, Informative

I think they should dynamicly change the clock speed based on heat content.
The P4 already does this. It will turn down the speed and even disable individual cpu components in order to save its life if it begins to overheat.
TomsHardware produced this video a while ago, detailing what happens when the heatsink and fan is removed during workload. They test both AMD and Intel processors from back then.