On 9/22/06, Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a few questions on the Duo processors -- never haven used one I don't > know how they work >
First, Wikipedia has excellent info and links in the Intel category. Here is the Core 2 page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2 > > Are they technically two chips? As long as by "chip" you mean die, then no, they are not two chips. If by "chips" you meant processing unit, then yes, they are two processors... on one chip, "glued" together. This is different from AMD's upcoming 4x4, which uses two sockets, each socket has a dual-core processor, making 4 cores on two chips. > Could you watch a movie and burn a CD at the same time (GASP!)? If you can't burn a CD and watch a movie at the same time, you really need to get a CDRW drive that has better buffer underrun protection. Or maybe an OS that was designed for a PC made after 1990 :-D > How do you define which tasks you want to assign to each processor? (On > Windows, and Linux)Thanks. > The (Windows or Linux) kernel will handle the processes for you. Now, if what you want is two physical sockets with processors in them, be willing to shell out some dough. The cheapest you could build a dual Opteron system for is probably around $2000, and it probably wouldn't out-perform a cheaper Core 2 Duo based machine in most areas. -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
