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Subject: Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:03:00 01/29/05

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On January 29, 2005 at 11:35:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 29, 2005 at 08:20:07, Jason Kent wrote:
>
>>It looks like by the third quarter of this year, both intel and amd will be
>>selling dual cores.  Are they basically handled as two processors under task
>>manager, and software?  I'm guessing this is going mean that to get the most out
>>of your cpu, you will have to buy all the Deep versions.  Maybe that is why SMK
>>decided to seperate the programs?
>>
>>Jason
>
>Dual cores will be two cpus with shared cache.  This means your old dual-cpu MB
>will have four real processors, or your old quad-cpu MB will now have 8 cpus.

Actually each cpu will have for each core its own L2 cache. So at a single dual
core cpu you will have 2 L2 caches. One for each core.

That's both the case for intel and for AMD.

Vincent

• Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess? Robert Hyatt 21:02:42 01/29/05
  • Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess? Matthew Hull 21:28:47 01/29/05
    • Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess? Robert Hyatt 08:53:52 01/30/05
    • Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess? Vincent Diepeveen 05:39:32 01/30/05
      • Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess? Matthew Hull 06:51:21 01/30/05
        • Re: How are dual cores going to affect chess? Vincent Diepeveen 07:29:36 01/30/05

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