Pros and cons of 2 cpus

[limqareb]

AMD A64 FX-57 vs X2

well i am asking you people to help me understand the difference between them

correct me if i am wrong

i understand an X2 that it has two cores both 64 bit each that would mean a total of 128bit but if a FX-57 is 1 core 64 bit why is there such a difference

and if you get a mobo with 2 sockets and put 2 X2 that would mean a total of 4 Cpus working togheter or am i wrong .? pls help me understand

 

[Dav0s]

64bit + 64bit does NOT equal 128bit. its still a 64bit cpu

there are no motherboards that ave 2 socket 939 sockets in them.

any mroe questions fire away

 

[limqareb]

ok do s754 2 sockets exist?

 

[NickS]

Nope. Only dual 940's, which can be the FIRST Athlon 64 FX's, or Opteron's.

EDIT: You cannot have a dual Athlon FX system though, only Opteron.

 

[limqareb]

ok so opterons are the only ones which can have 2 sockets , this is stupid are opterons 64bit(i think but not sure)

 

[bloodthirst]

ok so opterons are the only ones which can have 2 sockets , this is stupid are opterons 64bit(i think but not sure)

yeah they sure are

 

[akio]

FX-57 is better for gaming and overclocking, X2 is good for multitasking. In my opinion at least.

 

[NickS]

possibly the same in gaming....but defo. X2 = multitask.

 

[FragTek]

FX series is going to pwn the gaming market for some time to come... Now launching a dual 2.8ghz FX based core would be a different story and I'd hop on that bandwagon faster than you can say "FragTek's a pimp!"

 

[bloodthirst]

FX-57 is better for gaming and overclocking, X2 is good for multitasking. In my opinion at least.

until multi thread games are released

 

[enVias]

Yep.. They need to hurry up with that. It'd help with the Hyper-Threading aswell

 

[bloodthirst]

yeah will you be able to play multi thread games on a single core cpu?

 

[FragTek]

yeah will you be able to play multi thread games on a single core cpu?

Of course! Game makers aren't going to be producing "dual-core" only games as they'd only sell about 3% of what they would if it were also single core compatible. Everything will be backwards compatible.

 

[enVias]

Of course! Game makers aren't going to be producing "dual-core" only games as they'd only sell about 3% of what they would if it were also single core compatible. Everything will be backwards compatible.

Yeah.. And even if it didn't work on single core, it would work on Intels with Hyper-Threading Just not single core AMDs

 

[bloodthirst]

yeah i see well thats good you rekon that there would be any kind decrease in performance because there not being played on dual core cpu's

 

[CrArC]

I'd guess so, if they're optimised with multiple cores in mind, then a single core CPU will have to do everything once at a time instead of simultaneously, basically less efficient.

They've had dual core capability for a while on the 64 cpu's, all they needed to do was stick on the second core due to the way they've designed the interface between CPU/other components... sort of like extra room there, almost. The next chip I get will likely be an X2, not only to take advantage of multithreaded games and possibly future apps, but mostly the ability for it to always have free resources. Nothing more annoying than minimising games and trying to fwap around Windows...

Plus increased performance in Sandra benchmarks, always a happy moment..

 

[FarFarAway]

I'd guess so, if they're optimised with multiple cores in mind, then a single core CPU will have to do everything once at a time instead of simultaneously, basically less efficient.

They've had dual core capability for a while on the 64 cpu's, all they needed to do was stick on the second core due to the way they've designed the interface between CPU/other components... sort of like extra room there, almost. The next chip I get will likely be an X2, not only to take advantage of multithreaded games and possibly future apps, but mostly the ability for it to always have free resources. Nothing more annoying than minimising games and trying to fwap around Windows...

Plus increased performance in Sandra benchmarks, always a happy moment..

I'm thinking of one for the next upgrade too. For the same reasons really....I'd love to go into windows while gaming and be able to do some stuff