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Originally Posted by jman1310
the whole point of having dual cores is that you can multi-task with no performance hit. Joe stated earlier that he frequently games while encoding. On a dual cpu machine this is fine, however, because each has it's own memory. multi-tasking on a dual core will not yield similiar results, because each is using the same pipeline.
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What you think re-encoding a DVD takes bandwidth? Or folding? minimal impact. It will deliver performance with minimal difference except for extreme bandwidth cases of which there are few in the consumer space.
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i was not talking about running a single thread - what's the point of spending the $$$ on a dual core then? but yes, if you are only doing one task, then there should be minimal difference
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And that minimal difference is what you will see pretty much regardless. The vast majority of workload have minimal bandwidth requirements, esp with 1MB of L2 cache.
Aaron Spink
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