"True" Dual/Quad Core

[SocrPlyr]

Originally posted by: Shortass

Originally posted by: SocrPlyr
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It's a troll because your subtitle is "oh how i love the ignorance" and the only thing you responded to was a subjective opinion of the matter, ignoring the 3-4 technical explanations that actually contribute to the thread.

Actually it is all opinion... Why? B/c there is no definition of 'true'. I read all of the arguments and you know what most of them wind up agreeing on the fact that it doesn't matter. They differentiate in the same manner that I have done in my "Wall of text." Sorry about the subtitle though when I started writing the topic I meant it to go in a different direction, but I didn't change the subtitle when I got done. I'll remove that, I agree it doesn't sound good...

Josh

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: SocrPlyr

Originally posted by: Shortass

Originally posted by: SocrPlyr
Wall of text

It's a troll because your subtitle is "oh how i love the ignorance" and the only thing you responded to was a subjective opinion of the matter, ignoring the 3-4 technical explanations that actually contribute to the thread.

Actually it is all opinion... Why? B/c there is no definition of 'true'. I read all of the arguments and you know what most of them wind up agreeing on the fact that it doesn't matter. They differentiate in the same manner that I have done in my "Wall of text." Sorry about the subtitle though when I started writing the topic I meant it to go in a different direction, but I didn't change the subtitle when I got done. I'll remove that, I agree it doesn't sound good...

Josh

I personally think of MCMs as "Twin Cores" and the C2D and X2 as "Dual Cores"...
The reason is that while C2D and X2 are directly connected, the MCMs aren't connected to each other and the way they work is identical to them being in seperate sockets (e.g. signal goes from Core 0 through the FSB to the Memory Controller Hub then through the FSB to Core 1).
They do however have the most important advantage of being in a single socket...this is the most important thing because software companies charge license fees on a per socket basis (and if you're paying $10k/socket for software, that can add up to real money at some point).

But as Shakespeare said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."

 

[taltamir]

actually everyone agreed that "true" means single die with two cores vs two dies on a single chip.

And pretty much everyone said that it gives a benefit to performance... but its just a choice weather to do it first or do something else first... IE. AMD got a benefit to performance by making a true duel core die... intel got other benefits by going their route...
Now intel is implementing "true" duel core.. and AMD implementing what intel chose to implement first... bottom line is, cost and performance of the final product are what matters. Specifications are just little cool factoids to make geeks excited as they learn "how" it works...

On the other hand... get off your high horse and leave him alone... i mean, there is no flaming or trolling that I can see going on here... just chill...