can the dualcore 2.8 intel run at 100%

[eagle101]

i heard the amds can be set to run at 100% in the dualcores, can intels do this also?

 

[Markbnj]

Not sure what you mean. CPU utilization is a function of the demands that running applications make on the CPU. I don't think I have every seen both my cores at 100%, but BF2 with the beta nVidia drivers gets them both over 70% at times.

 

[phaxmohdem]

I don't have a dual core yet, but I do have some dual processor systems (same basic theory in CPU utilization). Basically the only way you will ever get both of your cores going at 100% is to have two threads (or more) running that use 100% of your CPU cycles. for instance, running two instances of Prime 95 simultaneously will bring them up. Im my case when I am rendering a 3D image or animation in Lightwave I tell the program to use two or four threads for rendering on the dual processor boxes, and it iwll use 100% of both CPU's for the polygon rendering...

CPU utilization is dependant on the software you are running.

 

[phantom404]

For the x2 what you do is install prime95 then copy the folder to another location(so you can open 2 instances). Open the first one set the affinity to run on one core and then open the 2nd instance and set that one to run on the other core. I just did this with my 4800x2 and both cores ran at 100%. I was still able to browse in firefox and watch a movie with no slow downs what so ever.

Im sure the pentiums are the same way.