I used to assign various apps to actual CPU cores on my quad but now I just don?t bother.
I am just hoping/assuming the OS should be allocating threads correctly.
I do mainly video encoding and now that I use mainly multithreaded apps, the difference is phenomenal. However when I try and run say quickpar to verify and archive of .rar files and then decide to unrar say 3 archives from one drive to another all at the same time? it?s like I?m back in the stone age. I would surmise though this is simply the channel bandwidth of my SATA/hardrives etc and read/write limitations and NOT the CPU?s. No amount of CPU?s will ever change that.
I always hoped I could do things like that? unrar 5 archives, while downloading something and having my email open, listening to mp3?s and surfing the net and encoding or converting a video file from one format to another in the background? but alas it simply cripples my system. You can do more with a quad but up to a point.