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Post by Shooter on Jul 4, 2004 21:09:46 GMT -5
Does anyone have any experience with this new processor? Is it the next big thing or just an improvement that you'll likely not see "in the real world"?
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Post by Keith Heitmann on Jul 5, 2004 9:35:15 GMT -5
Until programmers start writing 64-bit applications and games there isn't a great advantage in it right now as I understand it.
You can get one and be ready for that day, or you can just get a Intel P4 with Hyperthreading. I bought my Dell with one last year and it's smooth as butter and some apps actually see it as 2 logical processors instead of just one. If you have such applications you can speed up computations with such a setup. I run SETI@Home and one fo the utils I use to run the program takes advantage of this dual logical processor environment and can process two work units at the same time.
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