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Monday, April 11, 2005
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After testing the Dual Core Intel 840 processor versus the equally clocked Single core Intel 640, it is clear that the dual core processors offer a significant performance improvement when multi-tasking. Dual core processors are the future of computing and to be honest it does make a noticeable difference when running multiple applications at the same time. Our thoughts on dual core were only increased after completing the benchmarks used on this article.
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Would we buy a brand new PEE-based machine? Probably not, but that's the answer we give with most new technology. We said it about Serial ATA, PCI Express, DDR memory and DDR2 memory, and now we're saying it about dual-core processors - ultimately, the price premium for the Extreme Edition will be too high. That said, dual- and multi-core processors are definitely the way forward. Unlike Hyper-Threading, using a dual-core processor really is like adding a second CPU to your machine, rather than faking it up, as HT does. You really do have double the processor resources, all the time, not just when there happen to be some execution units going spare.
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