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Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 :)

So is it any advantage to the home user to have dual core, quad core or
more cores or will a single core be sufficient.
The reason I ask is my laptop is a dual core and my desktop is a single
core and faster than the laptop.
 
So is it any advantage to the home user to have dual core, quad
core or more cores or will a single core be sufficient.
The reason I ask is my laptop is a dual core and my desktop is a
single core and faster than the laptop.
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It might depend on your applications.
 
So is it any advantage to the home user to have dual core, quad core or
more cores or will a single core be sufficient.
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What do you want to do?
The reason I ask is my laptop is a dual core and my desktop is a single
core and faster than the laptop.
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Apples and oranges.

You will get better answers when you start asking better questions.
 
"Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 :)" said:
So is it any advantage to the home user to have dual core, quad core or more
cores or will a single core be sufficient.
The reason I ask is my laptop is a dual core and my desktop is a single core
and faster than the laptop.
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If all other parameters are equal, the dual core will be measurably faster than
the single core in CPU intensive applications, mainly because background tasks
can use the other core.

However, the laptop may have other hardware that is slower than the desktop,
including:
CPU clock speed
CPU architecture
CPU cache
Front Side Bus speed
Hard Drive I/O
Graphics adapter
Network adapter

Any of these can become the bottleneck, depending on the application.
 
pcbldrNinetyEight said:
What do you want to do?


Apples and oranges.

You will get better answers when you start asking better questions.
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That's as smart as I get.
 
Blattus said:
So is it any advantage to the home user to have dual core, quad core or
more cores or will a single core be sufficient.
The reason I ask is my laptop is a dual core and my desktop is a single
core and faster than the laptop.
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The dual core system I built is the most stable system I ever had. I
have been using it on the Internet for two years now and it has not
slowed down or crashed. It also runs cooler than the older systems.
 
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