Did I say anything about Dual cores in what I wrote?
Typically when you are increasing processor speed a number of things
are happening which increase your speed more than just a mere
multiple of the processor clock speed.
when you go from say a 1.5 to a 3.0 you are not merely just doubling
your speed, but you will notice far more bang. Why is that? I am
not an engineer, but I know that motherboards, Front Speed Buss,
Memory efficiency and a number of other factors help the speed
throughput so it is not just a multiple but much faster.
And yes there is some down side to all of it so that it is never a
straight graph increase, but one that has all sorts of dips and valleys.
Dual Cores lose some of their efficiency to a number of engineering
things and such that I cannot possibly explain. How much do the
newer Quad Cores lose?
Stewart
(Who will probably upgrade to a quad core when octocores come out.)
At 09:27 PM 9/19/2007, you wrote:
>Increases of processor speed increase processing not mathematically
>but algebraically. (I may have the terms wrong but it is not 2+2+2,
>it is 2x2x2)
Who told you that? Next time they tell you anything put your fingers in
your ears and sing la-la-la until they go away.
Due to overhead of various sorts increases have diminishing returns. So a
dual processor is only 150% as effective as a single processor of the
same speed. Etc., etc.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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