Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:16:25 08/22/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 16:08:12, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >On August 22, 2005 at 12:59:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 21, 2005 at 23:03:40, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >> >>>My sincere compliments to zappa and fruit, really terrific. But I am a single >>>cpu owner, probobly always will. But I have this feeling that the commercial >>>programs (fritz mainly) in 1 cput configuration would strangle zappa and fruit, >>>particularily in CC games. Please tell me I am wrong. >>>Wayne >> >> >>Remember 7-8 years ago when everyone was saying "Bob, you are wasting your time >>on that parallel search stuff, that is for expensive computers, not for PCs. We >>are designing for PCs." >> >>Flash forward. By the end of 2006, most any new computer will have at least two >>cores (two processors). And AMD at least will be offering a quad-core processor >>early in 06. >> >>This "SMP stuff" doesn't seem so useless any longer, does it? Anyone that >>ignores it, is just ignoring free performance that will be on _every_ machine >>within a couple of years... > >OK, your right Bob, problem is My 1.8 ghz cpu cost me $500 no printer no >moniter, keyboard etc....I am confident installing new single cpu and >motherboard, but not sure of my self in multiple core/cpu's. And what about cost >Thank you >WAyne dual core processors are not expensive. That's the point of them. And should you already have a decent AMD64 motherboard, you can just swap CPUs and suddenly you have a dual-processor at very low cost..
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