Recent content by DrunkPunk

I just searched thru the Microsoft site and VS 2005 builds a solution automatically using multiple processors ... with a project/ proc ratio.

I am not so sure about dual-core and Visual Studio. Are you sure that visual studio is able to actually USE dual core? Mirek I'm pretty sure VS doesn't support dual core builds but I thought that one proc would do the build and another any other apps running. Plus with the explosion of dual...

After doing some heavy surfing it seems the AMD is somewhat better for this kind of thing. I'm leaning towards the AMD 3800 + X2. Anyway the dual core is def a good idea for almost anyone except heavy gamers, where there isn't much use for the 2nd proc nowdays.

I need a new computer and I am trying to decide which platform to go with considering I use it for mainly PROGRAMMING (resource hungry Visual Studio 2005, Sql Server etc). AMD seems to beat Intel in games but I have no idea about other app types. Basically it comes down to ... AMD...