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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. "When its not crashing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only you would lift the power supply 3 feet above the ground,.. Oh wait..

  2. Basic Math by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Today on /. 3 > 2!!! Tommorow 4 > 3!!

    1. Re:Basic Math by jferris · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, no, no... Tomorrow there will be at least one duplicate post that 3 > 2. Then we will move back to 2 > 1, finally arriving at 4 > 3 sometime next week.

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    2. Re:Basic Math by Anarke_Incarnate · · Score: 4, Funny

      Does this "School" happen to offer English classes?

  3. XBox viable? by Jotii · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Xbox 360 is a triple core, which is a pretty good indicator that this configuration is viable"

    Wasn't XBox crashing constantly?

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    1. Re:XBox viable? by Vengeance · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, but that was due to a lack of string.

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    2. Re:XBox viable? by fimbulvetr · · Score: 2, Funny

      Are they pre-sliced, rustproof, easy-to-handle, low calorie, simpson's individual emperor stringettes, free from artificial coloring, as used in hospitals?

      http://www.serve.com/bonzai/monty/classics/TheStri ngSketch

    3. Re:XBox viable? by Supurcell · · Score: 3, Funny
      Yes, but that was due to a lack of string.
      Well that's the string theory.
  4. blaspheme by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure using anything other than a power of two irritates the binary gods, at least use an even number.

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  5. Re:If 3 work... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Cores

  6. Re:If 3 work... by op12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best part of that was the The Onion's article came true: http://zuchinis.net/niraj/stories.php?sid=61&tid=3 3

  7. Bad news... by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a senior Death Star Engineer, I don't think this is such a good idea at all. Despire the Governor's claims that the rebellion poses no threat, having not one, but three massive vulnerabilities on our defenses is only asking for a "small, one-man fighter" to score a direct hit.

    1. Re:Bad news... by breadbot · · Score: 4, Funny

      Are you saying you have doubts about the Governor's leadership? It's people like you that are the vulnerabilities -- not the engineering in the Death Star. Have you even seen it? It's massive! It's undefeatable! Worried about a "small, one-man fighter?" Sheesh, just put a few blaster turrets on it, and that thing will be history. I can't believe people are worried about things like that. Isn't the whole point of having a new republic to get rid of the dissent that's been wasting all of our time? Sheesh.

    2. Re:Bad news... by NatasRevol · · Score: 2, Funny

      I find your lack of faith...disturbing.

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  8. Razor Wars by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hehe, reminds me of The Onions article about five razor blades vs four.. Interesting that they wrotes this WELL before a 5-blade razor ever came out

  9. Re:If 3 work... by beakerMeep · · Score: 4, Funny
    I agree completely. And I came to this conclusion by asking myself this comparable question:

    Are 3 frikken sharks with frikken laser beams on thier heads better than 2 frikken sharks with frikken laser beams on thier heads?

    I think this puts the issue to rest.

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  10. 3 Coors by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, yes, the crashing is a problem, so lets just agree that 3 Coors are better than two unless you're driving.

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  11. but.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 1, Funny

    But does it run Linux and goto 11?

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  12. Re:Honestly, why have 3 cores.. by Colin+Cordner · · Score: 3, Funny
    When you could have 3 billion cores?

    I think they had problems scaling their budget.

  13. Re:Why have symmetric cores? by vw_michael · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not setup one core heavily interger optimized, and one floating point? That way you can run the FP apps like rockets, and the interger apps like lightning w/o comprimizing on either. Rather than have a long chain in the pipeline you could have paralell paths, and once an instruction is set down one path, the CPU could take the next and see if it can stick it down another path.

    Err ... you mean like the 8086/8087 or 80186/80187 or 80286/80287 or ... I'll shut up now.

  14. Car analogy by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, yes, when it's not crashing.

    I'd get the same effect if I tried driving my car on the freeway with three wheels.

    Just a pointless observation. I'm good at those.