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Are three cores better than two?

Posted by Hemos on

Barbarian writes "That's the question that Tom's Hardware asked. They took a dual-cpu motherboard and stuck both a single and a dual core Opteron on the board, for a total of three cores. Does it work? Well, yes, when it's not crashing. It does raise the possibility of tri-core processors whilst we are waiting for the next die shrink."

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  1. Instead of having so many cores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why cant we just have a single core which runs extremely fast with like 5 mb of L2. We cant forget that FX-57 beats a lot of the dual core CPUs