Quad-core processors are out!

[Jokerswild]

Most people that use a computer from what I've seen have no use for dual core even. Most are used at work for office and internet or at home for basically the same thing. Checking e-mail doing some online banking or shopping and maybe playing solitare or some other non graphic intensive games.

[Sovereign]

I barely push my dual core to its limit, folding puts more work on my machines than I do.

[Blondie]

Great line Quakin! That one is sig worthy

A lot of people know I went with the xeons last year. I haven't used them much, but from what I did, I wasn't "that" impressed. I don't know what I did wrong, the HT is turned on, but it shows only 2 cores going.

I'd planned to reformat and redo everything, I probably missed a jumper on the mobo or something. In January, I plan to put aside time, since I want to use it as a media center.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

Like my Dad always said tho, you can put a $500 dress on a $20 woman of the night, but in the end, your still getting screwed, you just paid more to do it.

Amen.

I trully hate Intel marketing. They flood the market with such a bunch of crap, and frankly without their precious Core 2 Duo they weren't better than dead.
Heh, money can buy everything I guess. I see alot of big computer stores around here trying to sell their left Pentium D 940-950 to clients, all I can think is why are people buying those with latest Intel price cuts. An E6300 based machine is not going for much more and there's so much potential. But I can't blame the poor clients, because they're being flooded with wrong information.

[fps justin]

Originally Posted by polobunny

Amen.

I trully hate Intel marketing. They flood the market with such a bunch of crap, and frankly without their precious Core 2 Duo they weren't better than dead.
Heh, money can buy everything I guess. I see alot of big computer stores around here trying to sell their left Pentium D 940-950 to clients, all I can think is why are people buying those with latest Intel price cuts. An E6300 based machine is not going for much more and there's so much potential. But I can't blame the poor clients, because they're being flooded with wrong information.

you got that right. Everyone is trying to sell the rest of their crap. Alot of the people without much knowledge are getting the crap.

Well, thats why you become an enthusiast.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by fps justin

you got that right. Everyone is trying to sell the rest of their crap. Alot of the people without much knowledge are getting the crap.

Well, thats why you become an enthusiast.

I guess. This morning when I checked the newspaper I saw an ad for computers. All their stuff seemed fine looking, except they were giving you rebates over rebates, a multi-function printer scanner, a free upgrade to a 250GB HDD on some computers, a free upgrade to Windows Media Center 2005, a free upgrade to a 22inch instead of a 20, a free 6MP digital camera and tons of other stuff.
Now, normal people might think "GREAT they're giving out free stuff", but all I saw in this was an overpriced machine from the start.
And only to mess even more the normal consumer they were stating random specs. Thing like:
ATI Radeon 512mb HM video card express with SmartShader™, Hyper Z™ III, VideoShader™ (anyone noticed you have no idea what the chip on the card is? :P Could be X600, X1300 or anything else)
22inch widescreen 1650x1080 WSXGA
EnergyStar monitor LCD, 2+3ms video response time and 700:1 contrast ratio (again, no brand or model)
750GB WesternDigital silent SATA2 hard drive with fast 7200rpm (because there's probably "a slow 7200rpm model". I wasn't even aware WD had 750GB...looks like i'm falling behind)

Sigh, that's what we gotta fight everyday, trying to tell consumers they're getting ripped off when they go buy at those places.

[jph1589]

When I ran my exact same video processing that I am running now on a Celeron D, it used to suck up 95 percent of the cpu and take hours.

When I ran it on my 520J Hyper threading, it took up 95 percent of both virtual cores and took a few less hours.

When I run it on my 920 dual core, it takes up 95 percent of both cores and takes a little over an hour.

Now the only thing that changed was the motherboard and cpu. The software is all identical from the operating system to the application. The application doesn't care if it is single core, hyperthreaded, or dual core. Windows manages all of that as far as I know.

So if I were inclinced to P--- away a load of cash on a quad core, I am under the impression that Windows would manage the distribution of the process amongst all 4 cores just as it has in the past?

I'm not going to buy a quad core anytime soon but I kinda hope somebody does. If they don't the prices on the C2D's won't drop much further. I've never paid more than $90 for a cpu and I don't really plan to change that ! LOL

Can anyone clear up or validate my impression of how windows manages the cores?

[Jokerswild]

I don't know about dual cores but with hyperthreading the application has to take advantage of hyperthreading not windows.

[screwballl]

750GB WD hd?
biggest I saw at newegg was 500GB... WD must be either rebranding the perp drives or making them for OEM only now for the holidays then they will be available closer to or after Christmas for the rest of us

[Blondie]

I see Seagate Barracuda 750GB OEM at newegg