Vista & Core 2 Duo

[imported_Com80787]

I was reading the other thread on this forum about "feeling the difference" after going to Core 2 Duo. It was stated that for everyday tasks there wasn't much difference.

It got me wondering - I've read Vista is supposed to be written with dual core in mind. Because of that would a Core 2 Duo CPU on Vista vs a single core AMD/Intel CPU result in more of an ability to "feel the difference" for general system use when compared to the same hardware running on Win XP?

In other words - will Vista use the dual cores to full potential?

 

[dguy6789]

Windows XP already uses dual cores very well. You can notice a significant difference in general usage performance when going from a single to a dual core. I am sure that the difference will be noticable in Vista as well, perhaps more so than in XP.

If you have a Core 2 Duo running XP and a Core 2 Duo running Vista, I would say that the Vista version would not be much faster, if it is going to be faster at all. I think Vista may be slightly faster in some things due to kernal optimizations and such, but it could very well be slower in other things, due to more taxing resource requirements.

 

[Pederv]

Originally posted by: Com80787
I was reading the other thread on this forum about "feeling the difference" after going to Core 2 Duo. It was stated that for everyday tasks there wasn't much difference.

It got me wondering - I've read Vista is supposed to be written with dual core in mind. Because of that would a Core 2 Duo CPU on Vista vs a single core AMD/Intel CPU result in more of an ability to "feel the difference" for general system use when compared to the same hardware running on Win XP?

In other words - will Vista use the dual cores to full potential?

Any application that is multi-threaded will enjoy a big boost when going from a single core to a dual core.
Most people agree, that games are limited by the video, not the CPU, so the change won't be as noticible.
Video and Audio encoding should be faster, but who sits and watches a video file conversion?

Will Vista use the dual cores to the full potential? I was working at Microsoft when Vista was still Longhorn, with everything they were planning on Longhorn doing.....sure it will use your dual cores, the question was would you be able to? Over the past year or two microsoft has cut back on what Vista is capable of, so it shouldn't need as much resources. Is Microsoft still allowing Vista beta downloads?