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What does Quad Core Mean? Is That 4 Processors?

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    Gandalf_TheWhite
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    My question is on Intel's New Quad Core Processor Technology This Quad Core Means - 4 CPU? And if there is not 4 CPU(Processor) Then How it is Quad Core It is same applicable for Core 2 Duo? Actually what are this Terminology Means? :)

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      My question is on Intel's New Quad Core Processor Technology This Quad Core Means - 4 CPU? And if there is not 4 CPU(Processor) Then How it is Quad Core It is same applicable for Core 2 Duo? Actually what are this Terminology Means? :)

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      dighn
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      Multiple processors on the same chip. As always, Wikipedia explains it comprehensively: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_%28computing%29[^]

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        My question is on Intel's New Quad Core Processor Technology This Quad Core Means - 4 CPU? And if there is not 4 CPU(Processor) Then How it is Quad Core It is same applicable for Core 2 Duo? Actually what are this Terminology Means? :)

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        Cmania
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        Hi Pentium is a technology as Core is both being produced by Intel. P1,P2...P4 are the series of advancemnts as Core and Core2 are. So far as Solo, Duo and Quad is concerned they are the number of procesing elemnts(CPU) present based on Core technology.

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        • G Gandalf_TheWhite

          My question is on Intel's New Quad Core Processor Technology This Quad Core Means - 4 CPU? And if there is not 4 CPU(Processor) Then How it is Quad Core It is same applicable for Core 2 Duo? Actually what are this Terminology Means? :)

          Believe Yourself™ :->™

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          Quad Core means four CPU cores on a single die. I believe that AMD's quad-core CPUs are truly four independent cores, where Intel's are actually two dual-cores. AMD claims their's is better. This all happened last year, and I haven't really been paying attention to this stuff since just before the hardware actually hit the street.

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            My question is on Intel's New Quad Core Processor Technology This Quad Core Means - 4 CPU? And if there is not 4 CPU(Processor) Then How it is Quad Core It is same applicable for Core 2 Duo? Actually what are this Terminology Means? :)

            Believe Yourself™ :->™

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            Paul Conrad
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            It's four processors on one chip. Hopefully, I get my hands on one soon :-D

            "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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              Quad Core means four CPU cores on a single die. I believe that AMD's quad-core CPUs are truly four independent cores, where Intel's are actually two dual-cores. AMD claims their's is better. This all happened last year, and I haven't really been paying attention to this stuff since just before the hardware actually hit the street.

              "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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              "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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              Dan Neely
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              John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

              I believe that AMD's quad-core CPUs are truly four independent cores, where Intel's are actually two dual-cores. AMD claims their's is better.

              In theory it is, in practice you need a 4 threaded app with heavy cross thread communications to realize the benefit. At the same time, Conroe is performing enough better than Phenom that it doesn't matter. They were roughly equal on a per clock basis but Phenom took a 10% hit due to a hardware bug (revision with the fix eta a few months) and Conroe will run at significantly higher clockspeeds.

              Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull

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                It's four processors on one chip. Hopefully, I get my hands on one soon :-D

                "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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                Would there be a benefit as far as Visual Studio is concerned? That's the only thing I really do on the box anymore. I used to play games, but I got bored with 'em...

                "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                  Would there be a benefit as far as Visual Studio is concerned? That's the only thing I really do on the box anymore. I used to play games, but I got bored with 'em...

                  "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                  "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                  John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                  I used to play games, but I got bored with 'em...

                  :laugh:

                  John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                  Would there be a benefit as far as Visual Studio is concerned?

                  That I wonder, if VS would break up different threads, such as during compiling, and delegating them to the different cores to speed up builds. I'm guessing a faster harddrive, such as a 10K rpm might help, too. Until I get cash for a better machine, I can only wonder.

                  "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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                    John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                    I used to play games, but I got bored with 'em...

                    :laugh:

                    John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                    Would there be a benefit as far as Visual Studio is concerned?

                    That I wonder, if VS would break up different threads, such as during compiling, and delegating them to the different cores to speed up builds. I'm guessing a faster harddrive, such as a 10K rpm might help, too. Until I get cash for a better machine, I can only wonder.

                    "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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                    As far as I know MSBuild is already parralised (I think that's spelt correctly) so as long as the dependencies allow it then it should be able to utilitise all the cores it can on the processor. [Maybe I've got this wrong and it's for the next version of MSBuild but I'm pretty sure it's already the case]

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                      As far as I know MSBuild is already parralised (I think that's spelt correctly) so as long as the dependencies allow it then it should be able to utilitise all the cores it can on the processor. [Maybe I've got this wrong and it's for the next version of MSBuild but I'm pretty sure it's already the case]

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                      Hi Ed,

                      Ed.Poore wrote:

                      parralised (I think that's spelt correctly)

                      may I suggest parallelized as in this article[^], a single r for sure. BTW I was surprised by spelt, very British according to my dictionary; actually it said Americans would use spelled; however it does not know a thing about parallelization... :)

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                        Hi Ed,

                        Ed.Poore wrote:

                        parralised (I think that's spelt correctly)

                        may I suggest parallelized as in this article[^], a single r for sure. BTW I was surprised by spelt, very British according to my dictionary; actually it said Americans would use spelled; however it does not know a thing about parallelization... :)

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                        Ed Poore
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                        Meh, it's one of the words I always have trouble with.

                        Luc Pattyn wrote:

                        spelt, very British

                        Given where[^] I'm located at the moment and where I am from[^] it'd be a reasonable assumption to make that I'm British :p

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                          Meh, it's one of the words I always have trouble with.

                          Luc Pattyn wrote:

                          spelt, very British

                          Given where[^] I'm located at the moment and where I am from[^] it'd be a reasonable assumption to make that I'm British :p

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                          I see, that is after I told Google's satellite to zoom out a bit ;)

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                            As far as I know MSBuild is already parralised (I think that's spelt correctly) so as long as the dependencies allow it then it should be able to utilitise all the cores it can on the processor. [Maybe I've got this wrong and it's for the next version of MSBuild but I'm pretty sure it's already the case]

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                            Ed.Poore wrote:

                            MSBuild is already parralised

                            The default value in Visual C++ 2005 is "2".

                            [Tools] | [Options]:
                            [Projects and Solutions] -> [Build and Run]:
                            maximum number of parallel project builds.


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                              Ed.Poore wrote:

                              MSBuild is already parralised

                              The default value in Visual C++ 2005 is "2".

                              [Tools] | [Options]:
                              [Projects and Solutions] -> [Build and Run]:
                              maximum number of parallel project builds.


                              Maxwell Chen

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                              Ed Poore
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                              Presumably that applies to C# as well?

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                                Presumably that applies to C# as well?

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                                Maxwell Chen
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                                Ed.Poore wrote:

                                Presumably that applies to C# as well?

                                I guess so. Mine is Visual Studio 2005. The [tools] | [options] are global settings.


                                Maxwell Chen

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