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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49:17 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: duo core question
Message-ID:  <B0A50160-67AD-4286-9DF1-1131FC58E6AA@u.washington.edu>
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On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote:

> 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.

Assuming you're not operating some sort of high-volume web/mail apps :).
-Garrett



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