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Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the burn-up-testing dept.

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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  1. Newsflash... by jawtheshark · · Score: 5, Funny
    SMP system performs better when applications are multithreaded...

    (Dual core is the same as an SMP system, except the cores can communicate a bit faster with each other)

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  2. Well? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean my Windows XP machine wont pause when I put in a floppy or Cdrom? Wow, sign me up.