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| 664771 | 2008-10-26 22:56:00 | I think unless you really multitask often, a quad core isn't worth the money. Although, I have to say keeping one is an extreme temptation. I bought a Q9550 cheap at $400, but I had to fight temptation and sold it for a $100 profit. :D Though the 'buyer' hasn't made any contact....:( |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 664772 | 2008-10-27 05:11:00 | I know that XP Home supports 1x CPU & XP Pro supports 2x CPU's, does this affect multi-core CPU's thou? Im not saying it *does*, Im just asking, I dont know... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 664773 | 2008-10-27 05:56:00 | According to tomshardware (www.tomshardware.com) Home supports multi-core. But not multi socket Altho you may need this (support.microsoft.com) If youre still using XP SP2 |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 664774 | 2008-10-27 10:01:00 | Thanks Speedy, good to know :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 664775 | 2008-10-28 22:55:00 | Even video encoding may not necessarily benefit from more than 2 cores, as it depends on the program and type of encoding you are doing. I was encoding video (converting video stream from 1 format to another and converting audio stream to mp3) on a dual core machine and it use 100% of 1 core and only 25% of the other. | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 664776 | 2008-10-28 23:21:00 | Alan Wake (yet to be released) and Far Cry 2 support quad core cpus. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 664777 | 2008-10-29 00:02:00 | I have found that with win xp pro and SP 2 all programs will use all four cores,regardless of whether they are designed to do so or not.. I use MS Flight Simulator X, a program not designed for four cores. I have it set to use three cores and I have XP and others on a single core. FSX uses it's first core at 100% continuuously and the other two cores fluctuate between 40 and 100%. I have also found that if I run FSX on four cores it uses 100% of core 0. If windows suddenly needs more resources, it will not use any other core. It just creates a massive lockup |
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