Are you multi-cored?
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
Multicore all way. I've recently upgraded my home PC to core2duo e6300 (gentoo compiles waaay faster) and talked my boss to buy me a multicore pc. However he was choosing and I got pentium D :/ It's better than a hyperthreaded p4 though..
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Eh! are you keeping records of my posts? :mad: You cannot get all that info from that my statement. Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
Paul Selormey wrote:
Eh! are you keeping records of my posts?
I'm sorry your memory isn't up to par. :((
Paul Selormey wrote:
You cannot get all that info from that my statement.
You've been in Japan too long, I think you've gone native. :confused:
Compassionate Conservatism is an Oxymoron. Bush is just a Moron.
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
Just upgraded my laptop a couple months ago to one with the core2duo thing. It's good. Fits well with how i work - multiple projects open at once, switching from one to another during builds, etc. No slowdowns this way.
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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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Paul Selormey wrote:
Eh! are you keeping records of my posts?
I'm sorry your memory isn't up to par. :((
Paul Selormey wrote:
You cannot get all that info from that my statement.
You've been in Japan too long, I think you've gone native. :confused:
Compassionate Conservatism is an Oxymoron. Bush is just a Moron.
Tim Craig wrote:
You've been in Japan too long, I think you've gone native.
Happy, I have learnt enough Japanese to confuse you ;P Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
at home a pentium 4 3.0ghz hyperthreading, but needs to be replaced very soon since it has had problems with heating since the day I bought it (I can't even close the box up without having my screen going black :sigh: (it's my graphical card that is overheating but just don't have the room in the box to put in additional cooling)) anyway, I'm waiting for the quad-core to become a bit cheaper. my old laptop (about 6 years old) was just pentium 4 my new laptop (about 2 years old) don't really know since my brother stole it (but wasn't multi-core that much I do know) at work I have a pentium 4 3.0ghz hyperthreading and that's more than enough at the moment since we do all our work on the servers so...
If my help was helpfull let me know, if not let me know why. The only way we learn is by making mistaks.
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Russell Morris wrote:
For the first time ever, my laptop compiles stuff faster than my desktop
I still cannot imagine doing development on laptop. I was given one when I first joined my current company, and I had it changed that very day. I hate the keyboard and the small screen. Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
Paul Selormey wrote:
I still cannot imagine doing development on laptop. I was given one when I first joined my current company, and I had it changed that very day. I hate the keyboard and the small screen.
Mine laptop has a 17" widescreen, so it's not that bad, but I completely agree about the keyboard. Doing development on it, which I sometimes need to do, is pretty frustrating do to the smaller keys, less tactile feedback, and horrible key layout. But then again, it's better than not being able to work at all when I'm on-the-go. But I still sigh a little sigh of frustration when I open it up to do development work. Just not as big a sigh as I used to give when I had my old 1Ghz 15" laptop :)
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
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Tim Craig wrote:
You've been in Japan too long, I think you've gone native.
Happy, I have learnt enough Japanese to confuse you ;P Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
I've got a dual-cpu machine at home, but it's only running WinXP Home, so it's half wasted (Before anyone asks, the machine was being given away at work, and was marginally more powerful than my old machine, I don't have the spare cash to get XP Pro, and it's not powerful enough for Vista.)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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I've got a dual-cpu machine at home, but it's only running WinXP Home, so it's half wasted (Before anyone asks, the machine was being given away at work, and was marginally more powerful than my old machine, I don't have the spare cash to get XP Pro, and it's not powerful enough for Vista.)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
Wow, please let me know if your company is given away more dual-cpu machine! What then do you use at work currently? Quad? dual-quad? Core2 Quad!!! Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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I've got a dual-cpu machine at home, but it's only running WinXP Home, so it's half wasted (Before anyone asks, the machine was being given away at work, and was marginally more powerful than my old machine, I don't have the spare cash to get XP Pro, and it's not powerful enough for Vista.)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
Given the massive popularity of Vista there must be at least 4 people trying to sell their old XP disks. If you can find one of them maybe you could cut a deal.
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
Paul Selormey wrote:
How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth?
yup, my fillings are multi-cored! i have cores so many places, the worms don't know which way to go! I've got so many cores, I can crash Windows and Linux simultaneously! I've got so many cores time runs backwards in the vacinity of my office! I have so many cores, I am the largest contributer to global warming! I've got so many cores, Intel calls ME to release their chips! I have so many cores Palo Verde Nuclear plant now serves me power directly! oops sorry, got carried away there.... yeah, I have a ... few cores. ;)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
3 of our 5 machines are dual core. The sixth (a 17" widescreen laptop for demo purposes) is being ordered tonight. :)
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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3 of our 5 machines are dual core. The sixth (a 17" widescreen laptop for demo purposes) is being ordered tonight. :)
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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does it come with a discount for the chiropractor you'll need after hauling it around a few times?
-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.
LOL I rather hope so! Fortunately, demos are not something we need to do that often, but as we're sponsoring the European Software Conference[^] in Cologne at the start of November, we thought we'd better have something to put on show. It will double as a test machine living on a desk most of the time.
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Looking at the recent Intel adverts, I feel lonely :((
"Multi-Core Is Mainstream: Are you ready?"
Both at home and at work, I am still on Pentium 4, and do not have any plans (especially for my home PC) to upgrade yet. At home, I have Dell Precision with Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, at work it is self-built (with Dell monitor) with Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth? Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
Paul Selormey wrote:
How about you? are you multi-cored to the teeth?
I'm running a close second with a PIII 667MHz.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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LOL I rather hope so! Fortunately, demos are not something we need to do that often, but as we're sponsoring the European Software Conference[^] in Cologne at the start of November, we thought we'd better have something to put on show. It will double as a test machine living on a desk most of the time.
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
Unless you need bleeding edge performance I'd think a high end 14/15" model running a 24/30" screen moved by the same muscle that built the booth would be a better choice. :P
-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.
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I've got a dual-cpu machine at home, but it's only running WinXP Home, so it's half wasted (Before anyone asks, the machine was being given away at work, and was marginally more powerful than my old machine, I don't have the spare cash to get XP Pro, and it's not powerful enough for Vista.)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
benjymous wrote:
I've got a dual-cpu machine...and it's not powerful enough for Vista.)
Really?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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I've got a dual-cpu machine at home, but it's only running WinXP Home, so it's half wasted (Before anyone asks, the machine was being given away at work, and was marginally more powerful than my old machine, I don't have the spare cash to get XP Pro, and it's not powerful enough for Vista.)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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P4 2.4 GHZ, not even hyperthreading. Waiting for the Quad-Cores to be a bit cheaper. When I get a new box, I like it to be at least twice as fast as the old one. Before this one, it was PIII-450...now there was a quantum leap :)
A 2GHz Core 2 Duo will be at least twice as fast as a 2.4GHz P4. Firstly the memory bus speed is now at 1.3GHz rather than the 533MHz of your old machine (it might be an 800MHz but this is less likely, I think). Secondly the Core series are much more efficient in terms of computations per clock cycle than the P4s. The same junk program compiled with the same compiler and the same compiler options ran in 23 seconds on my work P4 3.0GHz HT (800MHz FSB) and in 14.4 seconds on my home Core 2 Duo T7200 (2GHz) laptop - see post 1[^], post 2[^].
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