Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking

Vigile writes "While dual cores are just now starting to hit the scene from processor vendors, PC Perspective has taken the first offering from Intel, the Extreme Edition 840, through the paces in single- and multi-tasking environments. It seems that those two cores can make quite a difference if you have as many applications open and working as the author does in the test." It's worth noting that each scenario consists of only desktop applications, and it'd still be interesting to see some common server benchmarks, such as a database or web server.

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it's nice to see

[Adult film producer]

that slashdot is on the intel payroll too. people talk about the giant marketing machine intel operates, i just wish all of their lackeys would be a little more open about their financial relationship with the cpu juggernaut.

oh btw, amd made a real dual cpu release yesterday... You can actually buy the chip, unlike intel's paper release just a few days ago (ya, that was a really desperate marketing effort.) But at least slashdot gives intel the last laugh.