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From: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: duo core question
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On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@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.

just my 2bit's.

-pete

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