duo core question

[Norberto Meijome]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:11:20 -0500
"Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng at gmail.com> wrote:

> how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when
> running freebsd, nothing optimised..

How much faster than what.... 

:)

ok, without being a smart-arse anymore. :) Not sure how much faster a duo
core version of the SAME single core CPU, on a SAME motherboard with SAME RAM,
HD, bus,etc would be.... but, FWIW, from the mouth of some Intel Exec in a
Virtualisation conf. in Sydney late last year, they say they achieved about 85%
increased speed with a duo core, using the same amount of power as for a single
core. If wanted to achieve double the speed, the power consumption would be SO
much bigger that it wouldn't be worth it.  I found that interesting.

HIH

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