Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:55:03 -0800 From: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> Cc: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: duo core question Message-ID: <57d710000701171155v29201bc5s96dfb0584cd5143f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f84c38580701161935y2366534ao476051f65699fa1b@mail.gmail.com> References: <f84c38580701161711w323647c2n3e9c72b604eed49@mail.gmail.com> <20070117142404.43699e39@localhost> <f84c38580701161935y2366534ao476051f65699fa1b@mail.gmail.com>
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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 -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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