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From what im thinking, if my core 2 duo is on the edge of needing watercooling for a good overclock, do those quad core's absolutly NEED it for overclocking?
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enz660 said:hmmm, I might as well upgrade to watercooling then....for the future?
can I see the thread? Thats amazing!Sir. BOBSONATOR said:Coolaler ran his quad to 4.5 (or something in the 4's) on Air with a tuniq
phase change?Sir. BOBSONATOR said:Coolaler ran his quad to 4.5 (or something in the 4's) on Air with a tuniq
jcll2002 said:a beard isnt a computer
jcll2002 said:a beard isnt a computer
jinu117 said:Why would they stop marketing when they can make money. Keep in mind, even dual core when released was not as good nor needed as single core. It's just natural progression. Problem is buying quad core right now would be very questionable practice unless you have real need for it now. Maybe in 1.5 to 2 years SOME softwares might utilize it. Wanna hear something funny from me? MOST CAD/CAM software doesn't even fully support dual core yet... and that is considered pretty damn high end market...
trodas said:I dubt it.
In programming, there IS certain things that can be done in parallel. But most things depend on previous results, so you can parallelize things only to certain extend. Beyond that no extra core help you and not even the marketing BS can change it.
I mean - when you run game or a benchmark your system is usualy enought iddle and suspended, that extra core have no use for it. And it is kinda impossible to write application that will utilize properly two or quad cores in 3D setup engine (before it pass infos for GFX card to done some pixel magic there) if it still has to run on single core.
And since single core is not going to disapear any time soon, the game developers can't afford optimize so hard for dual core, and therefore the dual/quad core stuff is just not going to be that much popular and in the end not that much supported.