duo core question

[pete wright]

On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote:
>
> > On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-)
> >>
> >> so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really
> >> "feel" it??
> >>
> >
> > i think you really need to figure out how you are going to be using
> > the system.  if you are running a farm of machines running
> > multi-threaded app's then i'd say yes - multi-core systems are a
> > benefit (as you get more core's to run threads on w/o generating as
> > much heat and eating as much power as a second cpu socket).
> >
> > if you are running heavily multi-threaded desktop apps, i'd say yes -
> > it may be helpful for similar reasons mentioned above.
> >
> > if you are using your desktop like %90 of unix people out there
> > (web/mail and ssh'ing into servers) i'm not sure having two cores (let
> > alone multiple CPU's) is worth the price.
>
> Assuming you're not operating some sort of high-volume web/mail apps :).
> -Garrett

sure, although i can't think of any multi-threaded MUA's or web
browsers out there....

-pete


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