Mutlitasking

[acrylucs]

Well i'm headed to college and i'm buying a computer. i'm a gamer. and i do video editing and run servers. now. i was thinking of getting a AMD Athlon64 3500+ with Koolance cooling (silenceeeee) however, more and more i find that Pentiums are just waaaay better at multitasking. Here's my situation. i'm playing a low processor intensive game, like eve-online, or halflife. i want to run messenger, ts2, rip dvd, all at the same time. is there any processor (EE excluded) capable of doing this? and is my athlon 64 gonna do?
this is a BIG dilemna for me as i don't wanna make the wrong choice. thanks guys.

 

[gothitbycar]

What it sounds like you need is dual processors

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[Ned_Flanders]

pentium 3 450mhz

AMD's dual-core sex fights due in 2005

 

[Nights_L]

K6-3 450MHz blows it :lol:

 

[Nights_L]

I think most modern processors should do fine with multitasking..however, i don't think any processors could do ripping dvd, or burning cd while playing CS, eve-online..

 

[endyen]

Having that little dialog box pop up asking if you want to make a label, just as someone pops up and frags you is always so much fun.

 

[Nights_L]

LMAO!!
:lol:

 

[Ned_Flanders]

damn you with your superior knoledge!

AMD's dual-core sex fights due in 2005

 

[Zoron]

Burning CDs is possible while playing a game if your drive supports some sort of buffer-underrun technique. Why you would need to, however, escapes me. I mean you can't stop playing for the whole 3 minutes (or less) that it takes to burn a CD nowadays?



DVD ripping may be a different story though. I'm pretty sure that will choke almost any single processor.

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[jihiggs]

dvd ripping is more io intensive. i have ripped a dvd and played cs many times.

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[imgod2u]

Buy two computers, 2 keyboards and mice right next to each other. Two monitors next to each other (one connected to a KVM), and voila, switch the second monitor to one machine when in desktop (you get dual-monitor) and when you're gaming (since games only use one monitor), switch the second monitor to the other machine to monitor your dvd ripping/cd playing/cd burning/whatever programs while you game.

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[Nights_L]

Then YOU are Multitasking not the Processor :tongue: