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Are you hard core?

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How many CPU cores are you running in your main rig? (Round down)

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8 Cores (FX 8320, main pc)

At my family's work:

1 Core = 2 comps ( Athlon XP 2800+ soldered to a [Redacted] PCChips mobo and some [Redacted] sempron I cant even remember).
2 Cores = 2 Comps (A laptop rocking a Core Duo Pentium T2080 and a desktop with a Athlon X2 5200).
 
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I was getting 9 fps transcoding with my 8320 @ 4.5Ghz. Wish I had a 12 thread intel or proper gpu support for that situation.
 
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Got a 3930K so I voted 6 cores. Interesting that at this particular time, there are more hex core users than dual core. Gotta love progress :biggrin:
 
Main Rig (Work, Internet etc): 8 (8350)
Gaming Rig: 4 (4770K)
LAN Rigs: 12x 6 Core (960T's unlocked)
HTPC: 4 (AII X4 620)
Server: 32 & 2 (Opteron 6220 x4 & Dual P3 1GHz)
Laptops: 2, 2, 4, 4 (C2D, i3, i7, A10)

Total: 134

Technically the LAN Rigs are in a converted double garage which doubles as a guest apartment sleeping up to 6). Come mid 2015 I probably won't have any AMD chips in Desktops/Servers at all. 🙁
 
Hundreds of cores total here in the house I think 🙂 Most of them are very very very very weak though lol. Only fairly stout cores are i7 desktop, FX 6350 HTPC, i5 laptop. Aside from that I have a few dozen consoles and old computers and smartphones and such.
 
sm625 said:
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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I like the power saving i get from my x2 regor compared to the vishera cpu although vishera was more power saving than zambezi.

I am going to consider using my x2 270 instead of my amd fx 8350 because i am just not using the cpu for anything useful lol 😉
 
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DeathReborn said:
I'll be sure not to buy any of the few I've seen recently...
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i've not found an x2 280 but did buy another x2 270 because they are very quiet and give good office performance 🙂

I wish AMD had continued with the Regor with 32nm techmology for a great performing dual core cpu because not everyone wants a 4 quad core cpu for games.
 
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3770k @4.4ghz. Only time my CPU is pushed is via encoding and playing BF4. Single core surprisingly gets maxed in a few games that are only take advantage of one core. For the most part I am very happy.

I find myself wanting to go with Haswell-E in the future simply because I need/want a motherboard with more sata ports and dual nics. More is always welcome. I'd love to be rocking six or eight physical cores.
 
ozzy702 said:
3770k @4.4ghz. Only time my CPU is pushed is via encoding and playing BF4. Single core surprisingly gets maxed in a few games that are only take advantage of one core. For the most part I am very happy.

I find myself wanting to go with Haswell-E in the future simply because I need/want a motherboard with more sata ports and dual nics. More is always welcome. I'd love to be rocking six or eight physical cores.
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I used to have a very under used amd fx 8350 vishera with 8 cores and after seeing some games barely using 2 cores made me feel i might as well had a dual core cpu lol 😉

Yes i did ditch the amd fx 8350 and bought a cheap amd athlon ii x2 270 3.4ghz regor dual core cpu which has TDP of 65 so cheap to run, runs quiet and i am not missing the amd fx 8350.
 
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sm625 said:
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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So would everyone else in the world, but it isn't technologically feasible at this point.
 
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