AMD Quad-Core Demo

WC Annihilus

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Well, AMD has set it's sights on movement to a quad-core CPU. This is not an Opteron, but an Athlon 64 CPU! While this chip isn't scheduled to arrive until sometime in 2007, they are hoping to have a working demo system up by the end of the year. This chip will be using the upcoming Socket M2 interface.

Link: Geek.com Quad-Core AMD
 
WC Annihilus said:
Well, AMD has set it's sights on movement to a quad-core CPU. This is not an Opteron, but an Athlon 64 CPU! While this chip isn't scheduled to arrive until sometime in 2007, they are hoping to have a working demo system up by the end of the year. This chip will be using the upcoming Socket M2 interface.

Link: Geek.com Quad-Core AMD

socket m2:)

There is some debate right now as to whether or not the average user will have any performance gain by moving from a single-core to a quad- or even a dual-core. The advantages come from either running multiple applications at the same time or in using a single application that is multi-threaded. A multi-threaded application allows the workload of one application to be broken out and processed in parallel, thereby taking advantage of multiple CPUs. Most applications are not multi-threaded and will not see much (if any) of a performance gain.

bahh is it even really worth it
 
Prolly not when it comes out, as single core is still probably dominant as of right now. By then dual core will be the new dominant, and so on and so forth. All Darwin's Theory of Evolution :)
 
im saving up for an X2 at the moment, and im kinda sceptical of whether its worth it. All its got (per-core wise) over my XP3200 is more instruction sets and better stepping. And i cant see multi threaded games being around for a while
 
The 64's have a helluva lot more than that over the XP chips mate. Integrated memory controller for a very start....

Take it from me - you buy an X2 you will SEE the speed increase :)
 
Does the second core take the over-flow or is the load shared equally? I should have the money for the X2 in under 2 weeks from various sources, then the motherboard to go with it 2 weeks later. Im gonna hunt down some decent reviews for some sort of layout so i can write my own on both :)
 
On mine the task manager shares the load between the cores

for example:

F@H with 1 core: 50% on each core

F@H with 2 cores: 100% on each core

Unless you assign a task to be one specific core of course :)
 
Is it only possible to assign aplication to a specific core or could i assign system proccesses to one core, and aplications to another? Eg. explorer, drivers etc to one core and CSS, teamspeak etc to the other?
 
Yep you can assign an affinity to each core as you feel necessary :)

EDIT: Note that i could do this but I've never needed to to be honest - 64's EASILY handly multi-tasking like you just mentioned. You'd need about 8 or 9 BIG apps (Photoshop, Fireworks etc) to strain the chip :)
 
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