News AMD says it's the dual-core daddy

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  1. WilHarris

    WilHarris Just another nobody Moderator

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  2. TheAnimus

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    indeed, if you don't change the afinity mask, it won't.

    I used to use as my gaming machine a dual MP 1600 rig, now that gave me no increase until i told it to dedicate a CPU to the game, once i'd done that i saw about a 15-20% frame rate increase above an XP 1600, a lot more performance improvement than u'd see on an XP1800.

    But its great, nice to see AMD's awnser to hyperthreading, alough for now my dual xeons will keep me warm.
     
  3. Dodge

    Dodge What's a Dremel?

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    I don't realy see this happening. A new "faster" processor is going to be more expensive period.
     
  4. GigantoR

    GigantoR What's a Dremel?

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    Maybe not more expensive to manufacture, but yeah, they are gonna cost more to buy.
     
  5. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    If the chips aren't gonna extra, maybe I should wait until the dual cores come out, rather than build my new A64 system this summer, but "within the next year" could as well mean next May. :(
     
  6. Da Dego

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    TheAnimus,

    Glad to see I'm not the only one who has seen a boost in dual core for gaming. I think I mentioned somewhere that after setting my OS to run on a dedicated thread (even on hyperthreading), it has really helped performance (I think I was defending intel's HT at the time).

    Have you found any way to FORCE windows to open most of its tasks to run on one or the other processor permanently? I have a problem where if I set it once, the next time I reboot it does whatever it wants again.
     
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    Grrr... Argh... and other sounds of annoyance!

    I've spent the last 5 months saving up for the "perfect", "top-of-the-line" computer. I set myself limits, but only that it had to be things that looked like they'd be well supported with drivers etc. - i.e. I stayed away from dual processor, cos it looks scary, and I'm avoiding watercooling, cos I know what would happen if I tried it...

    Finally, I have enough money to start buying... the FX-55 is in stock... I can get hold of 9800 by the bucket load to SLI... and what happens? AMD release a dual core chip. Now I have to wait another 6 months until I can get hold of one of those!

    Oh well... at least I should be able to afford it by then...
     
  8. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Once games are really multithreaded then the benefits will start to show themselves. But there's something to be said about doing some xvid encoding while getting your frag on.
     
  9. GigantoR

    GigantoR What's a Dremel?

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    SLI'd 9800s?
     
  10. Da Dego

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    Ehhrm? :) I don't think you can do that...
     
  11. ZapWizard

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    Not necessarily true. Take the FX line for example.
    AMD has managed to release a three FX processors, yet each new one replaces the old one, without greatly changing the MSRP price on each release.
     
  12. RotoSequence

    RotoSequence Lazy Lurker

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    Tbh thats not the most fair example in the world; the FX processors scale up in speed at the same rate as the rest of the processing world as far as I have seen; they just hold a certain speed premium. Dual Core wont be practical for mainstream users until they are barely more expensive, or a real performance advantage is to be had; Gamers arent going to have a use for dual core unless they want to encode video or something task intensive and game at the same time, or wait until Unreal Engine 3. From the initial prices I have read of for dual core AMD, adoption will definitely be slow because of the high price premium; surely the silicon shouldnt cost that much more to produce :confused:
     
  13. Highland3r

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    Just read this
    over at XS. The clock isnt the important bit, its the heat output figures in post 27 that really shocked me. That CPU is insane if those figures are correct.
    Theres a quote further on stating ~ 3-400w of heat is producing with that cpu @ 5ghz... OK thats an overclocked CPU, at the top end of the range, but thats still a serious amount of heat especially at stock.
     
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