Hey Shawn,
Think of "to dual core or NOT to dual core" in another light.......
Do you like to listen to music while compose emials or msn chat or whatever chat box you use? And wouldn't it be nice to do virus scans so you don't have to run THAT app only while you wait for it to finish? How about rippping that live audio stream from the latest ESSENTIAL MIX from the BBC.CO.UK site? Oh and what about burning a cd while you get ready to go out for the night with your friends? Damn.....don't forget about that word doc you have to write for that school paper or meeting at work on Monday. And that site that you visit regularly to download DJ mixes....And just in case you want to play video games while your doing that .......ummmmm you can do that too.
Well................I can do all that with my rig.....and all it does is YAWN at me and say ..."is that ALL you want to do?" (sarcasitc text here)
Bottom line here Shawn is that on a regular basis we like to more than one thing at a time. It's human nature.....oh and we want to do it FAST too
SOOOOO in comes the DUALIES. There are already many games such as Quake 4 that have an advanced tab where you can click on "OPTIMIZE FOR DUAL CORE CPU's" . .. And I'm sure you wil find many more games out there that are being optimized for dualies in the way of game patches that are being released.
Another nice thing about dual core is that if you want to dedicate "ONE CPU " to a particular process you are running for whatever reason, by bringing up task manager and selecting process, right lick the process you want and select AFFINITY, you can have one cpu core DEDICATED to that process while the other one runs all the other stuff. I tell ya man the possibilities are endless bro 8)
Multitasking is the way to go bro, I;m telling ya. Like I said earlier in my post, I had about 8 processes open once, I opened task manager and looked at the cpu % load and it was fluctuating from 15 to 25 % load !!!! 8O
In my view on dualies, they can help to REDUCE "bottlenecks" for info transfer and makes things alot smoother to run.
NUFF said right??? Now do you sef a fava an go score yo sef a DUALIE
RIG specs
Antec P180 PerformanceSeries Mid-Tower Case
SeaSonic S12 600 watt power supply
Asus A8N32 SLI mobo AMD N-Force 4 SLIX16 (bios 1103 V02.58)
RealTek 97 onboard digital 5.1 Surround
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo Core, 2 X 1mb L2 cache (AMD driver 1.3.1.0 w/MS hotfix)
2 gigs of Corsair TwinX3500LL Pro @ 437Mhz 2-3-2-6-1T
2- BFG Tech 7900 GT OC 256mb in SLI (nvidia driver 91.31)
Western Digital RAPTOR 74.3 gig 10-K rpm HDD for XP & Apps
Maxtor SATA II 250 G HDD for gaming, movies, MP3's
Maxtor SATA II 250 G HDD for document backup (unplugged)
Sony CD rom 52X
Plextor 708-A DVD/CD rom
Logitech Z-5500 digital 5.1 THX Surround 500watts