Dual Core CPU's
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It's been so long since I last had the money to even look at buying a new PC that the current buzz words on CPU's totally confuse me. Why does Intel have both Dual Core CPU's and Core 2 Duo CPU's, I thought Core 2 Duo IS a dual core CPU? Which one is best for a laptop? PS. I still don't have the money :(( to buy one, but someone else is asking my advice and I had to take a mulligan.
evilnoodle wrote:
It's been so long since I last had the money to even look at buying a new PC that the current buzz words on CPU's totally confuse me. Why does Intel have both Dual Core CPU's and Core 2 Duo CPU's, I thought Core 2 Duo IS a dual core CPU? Which one is best for a laptop?
As long as I remember the one process can only access one cpu of the Dual Core (Pentium D?) cpu's. With Core 2 Duo one process can use both (one per thread). But I might be wrong :)
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Core 2 is a brand name for intels new(ish) processor cores, duo means there are two of them. Dual core could mean two of any cores including Pentium or Athlon to name just two. As Core 2s are very modern and very power efficient I'd recommend these for a laptop.
gmar
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It's been so long since I last had the money to even look at buying a new PC that the current buzz words on CPU's totally confuse me. Why does Intel have both Dual Core CPU's and Core 2 Duo CPU's, I thought Core 2 Duo IS a dual core CPU? Which one is best for a laptop? PS. I still don't have the money :(( to buy one, but someone else is asking my advice and I had to take a mulligan.
AFAIK is just an earlier revision of Core 2 Duo, but I may be wrong, I don't delve much into this stuff either. After Core 2 Duo you're looking at Quad Core then Quad Core Extreme, and I've heard something about "Core i7" coming soon, but I'm not really clear on what that is.
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It's been so long since I last had the money to even look at buying a new PC that the current buzz words on CPU's totally confuse me. Why does Intel have both Dual Core CPU's and Core 2 Duo CPU's, I thought Core 2 Duo IS a dual core CPU? Which one is best for a laptop? PS. I still don't have the money :(( to buy one, but someone else is asking my advice and I had to take a mulligan.
Of course you will be see new logo of intel: intel Core i7 with desktop background for powerful pc's and intel Core i7 with black background(exterme edition) for very powerful pc's that QuickPath is superseded for FSB. :)
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evilnoodle wrote:
It's been so long since I last had the money to even look at buying a new PC that the current buzz words on CPU's totally confuse me. Why does Intel have both Dual Core CPU's and Core 2 Duo CPU's, I thought Core 2 Duo IS a dual core CPU? Which one is best for a laptop?
As long as I remember the one process can only access one cpu of the Dual Core (Pentium D?) cpu's. With Core 2 Duo one process can use both (one per thread). But I might be wrong :)
Yup... you're wrong :)
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AFAIK is just an earlier revision of Core 2 Duo, but I may be wrong, I don't delve much into this stuff either. After Core 2 Duo you're looking at Quad Core then Quad Core Extreme, and I've heard something about "Core i7" coming soon, but I'm not really clear on what that is.
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The "Core 2" bit is the generation of the core. The quads are also "core 2 Quad" etc presumably the i7 will be the next generation of the core and well have "core i7 duo", "core i7 octo" etc
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evilnoodle wrote:
It's been so long since I last had the money to even look at buying a new PC that the current buzz words on CPU's totally confuse me. Why does Intel have both Dual Core CPU's and Core 2 Duo CPU's, I thought Core 2 Duo IS a dual core CPU? Which one is best for a laptop?
As long as I remember the one process can only access one cpu of the Dual Core (Pentium D?) cpu's. With Core 2 Duo one process can use both (one per thread). But I might be wrong :)
Each process consist of one or more threads. Each thread can be written in a way that it runs on a separate core. Softwares can benefit from the technology and many do like SQL Server and also many games. Newest versions of MS Visual studio seems to benefit the feature either since I've noticed great impact on their speed but never read about it. Apart from that, Operating Systems can run multiple processes(see multitasking for more info) on multiple cores boosting overall speed of applications running in a system simultaneously. This has sometimes a huge impact on speed, since OS has to share one CPU between all tasks but in multicore environment it can easily run background tasks on one core and the other core is ready so respond to any other task immediately. It's specially great for virtual machines that each can run on a separate core and multiple machines can run in parallel with great performance.
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I doubt Intel would stick 2 Athlon cores in ;P "Dual Core" is also a brand of Intel.
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The Athlon X2 is a dual core processor, in that it has dual cores.
gmar
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I doubt Intel would stick 2 Athlon cores in ;P "Dual Core" is also a brand of Intel.
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dual core is the architecture. "Core", "Core 2" and "Core i7" are Intel trademarks.
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Each process consist of one or more threads. Each thread can be written in a way that it runs on a separate core. Softwares can benefit from the technology and many do like SQL Server and also many games. Newest versions of MS Visual studio seems to benefit the feature either since I've noticed great impact on their speed but never read about it. Apart from that, Operating Systems can run multiple processes(see multitasking for more info) on multiple cores boosting overall speed of applications running in a system simultaneously. This has sometimes a huge impact on speed, since OS has to share one CPU between all tasks but in multicore environment it can easily run background tasks on one core and the other core is ready so respond to any other task immediately. It's specially great for virtual machines that each can run on a separate core and multiple machines can run in parallel with great performance.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
On media pcs, one core can run the video recording, another one for a game, another for burning a CD.
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