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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. Honestly, why have 3 cores.. by OmgTEHMATRICKS · · Score: 0, Troll

    When you could have 3 billion cores?

  2. Absurd article by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 0, Troll
    Heh, this is not Tom's finest hour. It sounds like they're terribly bored over there. The one interesting thing they found here could have been said in a blurb: "An SMP Opteron motherboard can run with two very asymmetric chips!" The fact that the two chips have a different architecture, different feature sizes, only one has SSE3, and only one is dual-core. This would make me think they'd never be able to help out one another on an SMP motherboard. The "S" is for Symmetric, after all.

    So, it runs, well enough even to perform some benchmarks. Nice. But what's the point of actually reporting them? It's relevance is like me reporting acceleration figures for my car when it's dragging seven steel bathtubs on a gravel road. Who would ever consider actually doing this with their own car(/tubs)?

  3. More than 2 cores is old hat... by gentimjs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Need more than 2 CPU cores? Dont want to wait 5 more years for it? ... http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T1/index. xml Sun to the rescue...

  4. PS3 is 9 core by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    FYI BITCHES: PS3 is 9 core

  5. It is better by heroine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Running dual dual cores is better. Running a single core and a dual core sounds stupid. They need to get out of America.