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

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? > > > >

Re: Dual Core vs HyperThreading vs Dual CPU

2006-01-12 Thread Danial Thom
--- Martin Cracauer 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 CPU ...

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, et

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 "bal

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 r

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 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 belie

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 > > k

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

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 .

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

2006-01-10 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 be

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 s

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 evide

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) Em