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Thread ID: 86455 2008-01-17 12:40:00 New to Dual-Core CPU Netsukeninja (13296) Press F1
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631261 2008-01-17 22:23:00 You're surprised?
Its because there is stuff-all that actually uses 2 cores, so 99.99% of the time one is sitting there in the waiting room with a magazine.

Just think of all the quad-core owners - they have 3 of them doing nothing.

Using AMD X2, WXP. Looking at task manager from time to time, I have often been pleasantly surprised to see both cores in use. Have wondered about it.

Playing an AVI movie file, for instance, task manager shows about 20% usage for one core, and about 30% for the other.
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