Stop making excuses. The CPU exectues instructions in memory. These instructions are feed into the cpu and it's upto the CPU to manage the way it runs the code. Both systems have the same priority on the tasks.
Before keeping wasting time arguing with what look like an ignorant user, can you please, and honestly list your background in computer technology? I means, if all your knowledge come from assumption, instead of experience, I suggest to read about CPU, logic, programming,...
Honestly, what do you think it will happen if there is nothing in memory to perform. I guess nothing. The way you are seeing thing, it is like the CPU would decide which instruction it will perform, bypassing programmed instruction. You see, the instruction in memory do not happen to be there. They were place there. Somebody wrote them, and in that case, they were not written with dual core. Hey, if the divx priority is set at low, instead of normal, and the system give him more time rather than on the WinRAR test, then there is something wrong too. Because, in critical operation, when critical task need more attention than other, and hyperthreading or the Intel CPU simply ignore that and set its own rules, that could lead to some serious problem.
The OS set the rules based on the apps prioroty settings. the CPU execute instructions the way they are sent to him and consequantly to the result of pasts instructions. Hey, if the CPU would decide which instruction to execute by itself, that would create quite a mess.. Unless they set the priority to normal in the divx encoding, which I doubt, the apps start in low priority and it is a normal behavior of the X2. If they set it at HIGH, as you stated, then all the other thread would have been jammed. Hey!, do a test, set the priority to high to one apps you'd start, like dvd shrink, let it encode a movie and try to use your others apps...You'll understand what is priority and what is the purpose of it!
I personally believe there is a congestion issue with the AMD X2.
I have a congestion issue with my nose.. it is because of AMD i'm sure..
Currently the Intel 840EE is doing a brillant job in balancing the load and maintainting quality results, the clear winner for professional system applications.
Currently, the 840 is doing a crappy job at critical timed operation bypassing the rules set by the programs that it execute, making it a dangerous CPU to use in nuclear plants, in hospital for patient critical monitoring, and for everything that have to follow the priority set by the programmers. after all, they are the one that knows what the apps should do and when.. And considering the numbers of reboot the Intel as been victim, if there were somebody that was maintened in life and his vital function monitored by the Intel system, maybe Intel would have kill him!!
That's shocking news for Intel
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