Dual - single core..How much faster is it?

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NoNoBadDog! said:
You are hopelessly a slave to Intel. You will lose. AMD is at least 2
years ahead of Intel in the dual core field, and Intel can't even build a
true dual core (see previous posts in this thread). Keep throwing your
money into the pit and buy Intel. Meanwhile, those that have functioning
brain cells will buy AMD.

Bobby
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AMD might indeed have better dual core (and other) technology than Intel.
However, when it came to buying a new machine this summer I chose a dual
core PD 3G. I was expecting to get an AMD processor. Why Intel? Because
the entire machine was much cheaper ($880 with 1G RAM, 19" LCD monitor) than
anything with AMD I could find. At that time dual core AMD chips were
particularly expensive.

Maybe Intel does not produce "true dual core" chips, but my regressions (I
use the machine for software development ) run in parallel in 1/2 the time
when using both cores (so my test time dropped from 5 hours with P4 2.4 G to
2 hours with PD 3.0G). It can't work any better than that (comparing two
cores to one core). Of course, not everybody will see the same results.
But I am not the least bit disappointed in the performance. Certainly, the
highest end AMD and Intel chips would provide higher performance, but those
very high end chips are quite expensive.

I was not excited by the power dissipation of the Intel chips (another
reason that I expected to get AMD). However, the BTX case does a great job
of getting rid of heat and my Intel system is very quiet and cool.

You seem to be more biased against Intel than I believe is warranted. I
have no particular attachment to either Intel or AMD. Personally, I am glad
AMD has done such a great job with their latest generations of chips.
Competition is always a good thing for the consumers.

BTW, Sun claims to be 3-5 years ahead of AMD and Intel in multicore chips
for servers. I wouldn't mind having 4 cores on my desktop. 8 might be more
than I could easily use.

Just my 2 cents,
Peter
 
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