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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. Re:Are three tires better than four? by pclminion · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes it works when it's design to work, like the XBox 360. SMP stands for SYMETRICAL MULTIPROCESSOR. A dual core and a single core are not symetrical

    Symmetrical multiprocessing refers to the equality of each CPU in terms of running jobs. Each core has equal opportunity to schedule and execute a thread. The fact that the individual CPUs are different has nothing to do with it.

    But thanks for playing the Demonstrate Your Ignorance Of Terminology game.