can everyone remember that windows 7 was built with intel hyperthreading in mind and is not currently working correctly with amds bulldozer
with a service pack (if its possible) or windows 8, some of the more craptastic benchmarks with bulldozer could/should be fixed, with only the single threaded applications takeing a hit, and honestly, we had multicore for at least 6 years now, and i believe the first commercial consumer one being an amd (i may be wrong, and probably wrong by i believe 4 years) there is no reason for any application to be single core anymore. seeing as almost EVERYTHING benefits from multi cpu.
in the multi cpu department, bulldozer can surpass the more expensive i7 and jut not the less expensive i5.
now imagine if windows was written to take advantage of amds multithreading solution.
im waiting on win 8 and on the first year revise before i condemn amd.
all that said, we are literally talking about seconds of difference in speed, not minutes.
with a service pack (if its possible) or windows 8, some of the more craptastic benchmarks with bulldozer could/should be fixed, with only the single threaded applications takeing a hit, and honestly, we had multicore for at least 6 years now, and i believe the first commercial consumer one being an amd (i may be wrong, and probably wrong by i believe 4 years) there is no reason for any application to be single core anymore. seeing as almost EVERYTHING benefits from multi cpu.
in the multi cpu department, bulldozer can surpass the more expensive i7 and jut not the less expensive i5.
now imagine if windows was written to take advantage of amds multithreading solution.
im waiting on win 8 and on the first year revise before i condemn amd.
all that said, we are literally talking about seconds of difference in speed, not minutes.