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matttheniceguy said:that's the new dual core EE, being released with the D series I think. Here is a tomshardware review of them link
I'm not overly excited about dual cores. The only thing I (and most of the people on these forums) use that truly maxes out your processor is gaming, and until games are programed for multithreads, a dual core will do virtually nothing for you.
It looks to me like AMD will have dual cores for the server market (where they will actually improve performance) and stick to single cores for the desktop for quite some time (until softwear makes a dual core usefull). Intel is already rolling out dual cores and will be selling them to the masses (idiots) who will no doubt believe that dual cores are twice as good.
For a few applications which can take advantage of dual cores they are great, but until games take advantage, I don't have much of a use for them.
theMonster said:Mattthewrongguy, where do you get off calling people idiots who are buying dual-core CPUs? I'm buying one and I'm sure as hell not an idiot. I DON'T PLAY GAMES ON MY COMPUTER!!!!! I do Audio/Video editing, so that makes me an idiot, right? Seriously, somebody spending over a thousand dollars on a machine used for games rather than buying an X-box and PS2 is more likely to fall into that category.
Please watch making sweeping generalizations and referring to people as idiots just because their needs don't match yours.
theMonster said:Seriously, somebody spending over a thousand dollars on a machine used for games rather than buying an X-box and PS2 is more likely to fall into that category.
theMonster said:Mattthewrongguy, where do you get off calling people idiots who are buying dual-core CPUs? I'm buying one and I'm sure as hell not an idiot. I DON'T PLAY GAMES ON MY COMPUTER!!!!! I do Audio/Video editing, so that makes me an idiot, right? Seriously, somebody spending over a thousand dollars on a machine used for games rather than buying an X-box and PS2 is more likely to fall into that category.
Please watch making sweeping generalizations and referring to people as idiots just because their needs don't match yours.
matttheniceguy said:Wow... sorry for the mix up, you got me all wrong. I wasn't meaning that everyone who was buying a dual core was an idiot at all, for many people they are great. I was meaning that Intel will be selling a lot of these dual cores to "joe sixpacks" who will then proceed to use them for internet browsing and collecting viruses and spyware with kazaa.
For people such as yourself, who do Audio/Video editing, a dual core is a big improvement and makes sence. My comment about idiots was refering to the people with no real use for these dual core processors who will be upgrading to them simply because Intel said they should.
You means Toms and Anands ???dropadrop said:I've seen atleast two sites with dualcore benchmarks before this, and one of them actually ran quite a few benchmarks.
its funny how benchmarking as we knew it before is going to have to change as you cant fully bench them now can you.dropadrop said:Sure the earlier ones where with opterons, but it will still go quite a way in showing what the performance will be. Atleast further then a benchmark in one application.
Yes it means overclockers.comdropadrop said:Anyway, I find it quite strange that we have a post in front page discussions (this does mean overclockers.com does'nt it?) with a link to another webpage that requires registration to view.
jAY said:You means Toms and Anands ???
its funny how benchmarking as we knew it before is going to have to change as you cant fully bench them now can you.
Yes it means overclockers.com
and no registration is needed to view anything posted in this thread
dropadrop said:Well that's funny, cause when I click the link in the first page, I end up on Elite ******** forum login page.
Well that's funny, cause when I click the link in the first page, I end up on Elite ******** forum login page.