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Community weekly poll: Will you be moving to a dual-core processor soon?
- 1/24/06 2:48 PM
Choice is Simple
by AvisoTrader - 1/30/06 11:31 AM In reply to: Will you be moving to a dual-core processor soon? by Marc Bennett
Why anyone would overpay for underperformance is beyond me. AMD is the choice hands down. My system has 4 monitors & I really put it through its paces - realtime streaming stock quotes/charts while doing video editing/webwork all the same time. Dual Core will really improve my performance.
Later ..
by Redmachine - 1/31/06 5:01 PM In reply to: Will you be moving to a dual-core processor soon? by Marc Bennett
I just might if a nice enough system comes along for gaming. Let the price drop a bit first. Really good systems configured for games, Voodoo, are quite pricey. But if your a edegy gamer with funds you'll do it.
I do quite well on my 32bit systems and I expect some of those are getting quite cheap about now. So it may be time to dive into some new systems for 200, 300 or less bucks.
Works for me
AMD FX-60
by khoa phan - 1/31/06 11:37 PM In reply to: Will you be moving to a dual-core processor soon? by Marc Bennett
I am now a proud owner of an AMD FX-60.
Eat your heart out intel fans. 
AMD FX-60
by cgilmo78 - 2/1/06 6:23 AM In reply to: AMD FX-60 by khoa phani wish i could afford one of these beasts. Benchmarks on this CPU have all been outstanding.
and of corse F.E.A.R, City of Villains, Call of Duty 2 and Quake 4 all support multi-threaded code. Great news for the gamer.
SINGLE VS DUAL CORE PROCESSORS FOR VIDEO EDITING & DVDS
by t_gwynn - 2/5/06 4:58 PM In reply to: Will you be moving to a dual-core processor soon? by Marc Bennett
I do a lot of intensive video editing and DVD burning. My single core system is not only too slow but I can't do anything else on the system while either editing or burning a DVD. A friend of mine told me I should just buy a stand alone system dedicated to video work rather than invest in a dual core processor.
Anybody have any experience along these lines - which approach is best?
balance daniel son
by cgilmo78 - 2/7/06 10:37 AM In reply to: SINGLE VS DUAL CORE PROCESSORS FOR VIDEO EDITING & DVDS by t_gwynnwhat you need is a good balanced system. You want Ram that will keep up with your cpu and vice versa. This can easily be done on one cpu. Price the AMD athlon x2 3800+ combine it with some OCZ titanium ram, make sure you get at least a 2 gb capacity, and one of western digitals new line of 16mb buffer hard drives. Then you would have a system that can do everything you want and more.
I have already purchased a dual core CPU
by Grateful2 - 2/13/06 3:27 PM In reply to: Will you be moving to a dual-core processor soon? by Marc Bennett
I purchased a Pentium D 820 this past fall, and although it runs well, it's not the speed demon that was promised. I'm happy enough with it, but I don't play games or do much intense CPU work. It is nice to have spare power when the computer is running an automatic program, such as a virus scan or defrag, because the program I am working with still receives enough CPU uasage to prevent most slow-downs, but they sometimes still occur. I have 1 GHz of DDR2 SDRAM, and I'm wondering if I should double that. I don't know exactly how the dual chips utilize the RAM. I wonder if the RAM is dedicated to each CPU separately. If so, perhaps my small problems would be improved with a memory upgrade. I would also recommend that one buy the fastest CPU affordable, and perhaps an AMD chip. I wish I had waited just a bit longer.
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