Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] No kidding. But I doubt the competence of people that buy computers from big name manufacturers, unless they bought it maybe for server applications, large scale deployment of machines, etc. Gotta love their little Flash graphics with the balls

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew P.
On 1/12/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] No kidding. But I doubt the competence of people that buy computers from big name manufacturers, unless they bought it maybe for server applications, large scale deployment of machines, etc. Gotta

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-12 Thread Danial Thom
--- Martin Cracauer cracauer@cons.org wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:52:24PM -0400: I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ... but, is how does it rate? I know that HyperThreading is definitely != Dual

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-12 Thread Danial Thom
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 11, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Danial Thom wrote: Wait, I can download music, run a virus scanner and play games all at the same time? wow. Wait, I can do that anyway. Does each core have its own hard drive too? I wonder how many

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-12 Thread Martin Cracauer
I have benchmarks comparing dual-core 939 socket systems against dual 940 socket systems here: http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/crabench.html Just a question about your benches, any reason you just don't ship files to /dev/null? That was always the standard in unix to get the

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10 Jan 2006, at 18:06, Andrew P. wrote: By 2010 we'll see 4-core, 8-core and maybe even 16/32 solutions. We got those in 2005: http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T1/ index.xml PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Danial Thom
--- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ... but, is how does it rate? I know that HyperThreading is definitely != Dual CPU ... but how close

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10 Jan 2006, at 18:06, Andrew P. wrote: By 2010 we'll see 4-core, 8-core and maybe even 16/32 solutions. We got those in 2005: http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T1/index.xml That's a little different than what Andrew was describing as

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ... but, is how does it rate? I know that HyperThreading is

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Danial Thom
--- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ...

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 11, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Danial Thom wrote: Wait, I can download music, run a virus scanner and play games all at the same time? wow. Wait, I can do that anyway. Does each core have its own hard drive too? I wonder how many meetings they had before they came up with that description of

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-11 Thread Martin Cracauer
Marc G. Fournier wrote on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:52:24PM -0400: I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ... but, is how does it rate? I know that HyperThreading is definitely != Dual CPU ... but how close does Dual Core get? It is the real

Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ... but, is how does it rate? I know that HyperThreading is definitely != Dual CPU ... but how close does Dual Core get? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew P.
On 1/10/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ... but, is how does it rate? I know that HyperThreading is definitely != Dual CPU ... but how close does Dual Core get? There is extensive evidence

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe that they took a step back) ... but, is how does it rate? I know that HyperThreading is definitely != Dual CPU ... but how close does Dual Core get? Dual Core = two physical CPUs, possibly sharing L2 cache. HyperThreading = double

RE: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-10 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:52 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU I'm going to assume that Dual Core is better (can't believe