Input lag on two cpus vs one?

[Randomdeath]

I was just wondering to myself, if I played any game (csgo, for example since everyone screams about input lag on that game) would there be much of a difference between two cpus and one cpu? For example if I played on an older, high end workstation/server with two cpu sockets, should I fill them both or just use one?

 

[BigBoomBoom]

It's going to depend on the application but I think like 99.99% games won't use 2 CPUs. Heck, they won't even use more than 4 cores of 1 CPU.

 

[Randomdeath]

It's going to depend on the application but I think like 99.99% games won't use 2 CPUs. Heck, they won't even use more than 4 cores of 1 CPU.

I don't know how Windows treats two CPUs is the thing, so I don't know if the game would use two cores from one cpu and two cores from the other?

 

[BigBoomBoom]

Two CPUs are mainly used for server, game is unlikely to use more than one CPU ever.

 

[anderso7583v]

You can't use only 1 CPU in an dual socket motherboard. Oh, and it actually depends on the workload. cinebench, blender, or other heavily multi-threaded workloads would definitely take advantage of dual 8180m 56-thread processors, whereas many, if not all, games would run worse than an old e8400.

 

[mdd1963]

You can't use only 1 CPU in an dual socket motherboard. Oh, and it actually depends on the workload. cinebench, blender, or other heavily multi-threaded workloads would definitely take advantage of dual 8180m 56-thread processors, whereas many, if not all, games would run worse than an old e8400.

Of course you can (Many manufacturers in the past would advise that customers could add the second cpu when/only if needed in the future, but, naturally, not all the RAM slots are functional with only a single CPU installed.)

 

[anderso7583v]

You can't use only 1 CPU in an dual socket motherboard. Oh, and it actually depends on the workload. cinebench, blender, or other heavily multi-threaded workloads would definitely take advantage of dual 8180m 56-thread processors, whereas many, if not all, games would run worse than an old e8400.

Of course you can (Many manufacturers in the past would advise that customers could add the second cpu when/only if needed in the future, but, naturally, not all the RAM slots are functional with only a single CPU installed.)

Thank you, I did not know that.