Who Else is Waiting Until the Venice Cores Are out Until They Build a System?

[Pixle]

Originally posted by: Kvaerner Masa

I'm waiting for the Toledo dual core cpu.

I've been seeing them at the supermarkets for years. I had no idea those scales needed such cpu power. Someone should beowulf all the food lions, piggly wigglys, etc. together and fight cancer.

I've tried some of those and they are quite good! But really, dual core cpu's seem to be right around the corner. A computer with 2 cpu's seems alot more attractive than 1 cpu. Even if it won't improve game speed.

I'm a casual win xp user than opens up to six programs or windows at a time. I don't like having to wait on that. I'll open up a program and run a search for a song at the same time.

And if they are at all overclockable... 2 x 2.2 's at 2.6 ghz would be sweet!

 

[ytsejam02]

Originally posted by: hippotautamus
^Incorrect. Current games are written to be sequential and single threaded because that's what hardware was available. However, games can be EASILY multithreaded, since they are a compilation of so many different functions.

A few thoughts...

Games will always be written to be sequential. I'm sure they can find something to do out of synch, but that sounds messy to me. Threading generally needs to be synchronized in some way shape or form, usually due to shared data.

For example, all games have a program loop. This loop waits for you to perform an action, such as typing a key. The enemy is definitely running on it's own thread. If an action you perform causes the other thread to behave differently, that's due to shared data. They can't operate on the same data at the same time, so one thread has to wait for the other thread to finish and release the data.

Also, I'm not aware of any programming language whereby you can delegate seperate threads to different CPUs.

I'm certain they currently use threads. I'm certain they will receive a performance boost from dual cores. And just like with a single processor, I'm also certain that multithreading can create a whole new set of problems, and does not gaurantee anything.

 

[Chosonman]

Wow and just a few months ago people were swearing Wincherster were the future.

 

[DanDaMan315]

Winchester's hit the "wall" at about 2.7

 

[wolfpack15]

Also waiting here for 3800+

 

[JuanT]

Has there been any new news on Dual Cores? I'm still just worried about compatibility if I were to buy an S939 nforce4 mobo now. Of course, I know I probably won't buy Toledo when it comes right out, but I keep my PCs for a while and a relatively minor upgrade (just plug in the CPU) is quite attractive.

 

[rise]

look in the cpu forum, they have links to reviews of the x2