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Are you hard core?

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4 core (3570k). As to the title question 'are you hard core', nope and dont think I ever will be. Meaning I will never water cool or SLI/CF or buy top processor (i7-3960k) or top GPUs. And I'm content in the fact that am having just as much quality gaming/computing for my needs as any of the hard core folks.
 
Rakehellion said:
Seems like there's a spurious demand all of a sudden for more cores when people are barely using the ones they have now. Also once you get to a certain number, you're better off running your software on the GPU.

So how hard core are you?

Poll.
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I think that on a site like this there are enough people who can make good use of more cores.
 
My main rig has 6 cores - Phenom II X6 1100T.

Markfw900 said:
What about how many total cores in your house ?
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That would be an interesting poll question. Let's see, including my old laptop, I have 36 cores total.

Desktop PCs
6 6 6 6 4 4

Low powered PCs
2 1

Laptop
1
 
Cores the family owns:

3770, 1055, 2500, 750, 2x C2D, 2x Regor, 4000+, and one random Intel dual core.

4ht, 6, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 = 30 cores in desktops

Centrino, i5, i7, i3, triple, dual

1, 2ht, 4ht, 2, 3, 2 = 14 laptop cores...

plus 10 virtual cores.

The way this happens is that a system starts out as a primary system like the 2.3GHz C2D. Gets an upgrade to a 3GHz C2D. Gets replaced by the i5-750, gets replaced by the i5-2500k, gets replaced by the i7-3770s. Old systems become BOINC or F@H crunch boxes. Then stuff gets so cheap and enough spare parts are laying around so another crunch box is built around the original 2.3GHz C2D that has been just sitting around.

Perfectly sane, really!
 
Cores / threads on desktops I own :

(54/54) 9x PhenomII X6 1045T
( 4/ 4) 2x Pentium G645
( 8/16) 2x Core i7 920
( 4/ 4) 2500K
( 4/ 4) 3570K
( 8/ 8) 2x PhenomII X4 940

Can't be bothered to list laptops (about 6x Intel dual-cores from SU7300 to IVB i3).
I think I have a problem 😳
 
Dinkydau said:
I think that on a site like this there are enough people who can make good use of more cores.
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There's this thing called diminishing returns.

Some years ago, Intel promised us 10GHz chips. Then they found out that was impossible, so instead we got dual-core. Then they promised us 128-core chips. Instead, we got the 60-core Xeon Phi, which of course is competing with the Nvidia Tesla, not the Opteron.

A 2-core machine will never be twice as fast as a 1-core machine. And your average software title won't ever be optimized for eight cores, so I'm not sure why this whole thing is applauded at this point.

Do we really need 128-core machines, each core running four threads, and every thread with its own SSE and MMX vector units?

Are we seeing the death of the CPU as we know it?
 
WhoBeDaPlaya said:
Cores / threads on desktops I own :

(54/54) 9x PhenomII X6 1045T
( 4/ 4) 2x Pentium G645
( 8/16) 2x Core i7 920
( 4/ 4) 2500K
( 4/ 4) 3570K
( 8/ 8) 2x PhenomII X4 940

Can't be bothered to list laptops (about 6x Intel dual-cores from SU7300 to IVB i3).
I think I have a problem 😳
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Dang that is a lot of rigs 😱
 
Cores / threads on desktops I own :

(8/ 8) AMD FX 8320
(4/ 4) AMD FX 4100
(2/ 2) Athlon II x2 240
(2/ 2) AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+
(2/ 2) 2x Core 2 Duo E6550
(2/ 2) Core 2 Duo E4500
(2/ 2) Pentium D 915
(2/ 2) Pentium D 945
(1/ 1) 2x Pentium 4 2.8GHz Northwood
(1/ 1) Pentium 4 2.4GHz Prescott
(1/ 1) Pentium II 400MHz


Don't feel like digging out the old Laptops XD
 
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You know, I'm just glad I'm not the only one geeky enough to own multiple computers. And when I say multiple, I don't mean just 2 or 3 computers.
 
Right now there almost as many 2 cores owners as there are users owning 6 cores CPUs.

Now I really didn't expect this on an enthusiast / geek forum. It just seems 2 cores is basically enough for basic productive tasks.

Speaking of which I know many webdesigners working on Core 2 Duo's, with lots of Photoshop related tasks. And it has been my experience that if you max-out the RAM on a Core 2 platform and throw in a SSD you are pretty much set. I can even fire-up a lightweight ubuntu distro in a VM and do rails dev in it, although I admit that some more cores and virtualization instructions would probably improve the experience by some margin.
 
Well i used to have a AMD FX 4300 but it died so i replaced it with my AMD Athlon X2 240 Regor 2.8Ghz and for general browsing i have not noticed the difference 😉
 
I also have a AMD FX 8350 which has 8 Cores and this is still working 😉

Going to play some games with my Athlon X2 240 Regor and on my Athlon X2 270 3.4Ghz when it arrives. I still don't know what killed my AMD FX 4300 because i never overclock any of my hardware.
 
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I would still rather trade my 4 cores in for two cores that perform twice as fast in single thread benchmarks and roughly the same in multithreaded benchmarks.
 
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