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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Ideal for developers

[cerberusss]

It's a shame they just upgraded our PCs. I'd *love* to get ahold of one of these. We're developers and running Eclipse and JBoss locally (we have servers, but local installations can be useful) and a dualcore could speed things up.