Pentium D and XP performance

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Neil Barras

Hi all,

I'm going to be building a Dual Core system in the next month or so, and was
wondering about the performance of Windows XP. I am a saturday lad in an IT
shop and my colleague told me he built one for a customer (At a cost of
£1200 mind you) and that it booted to the desktop, fully loaded in 7
seconds.

This made me think - Seeing as a lot of the games out already are not
multithreaded, they do not show a major performance boost on a Dualie,
sometimes they even show a slow down. Does this mean XP is multithreaded?

Thanks,

Neil
 
Neil Barras said:
Hi all,

I'm going to be building a Dual Core system in the next month or so, and was
wondering about the performance of Windows XP. I am a saturday lad in an IT
shop and my colleague told me he built one for a customer (At a cost of
£1200 mind you) and that it booted to the desktop, fully loaded in 7
seconds.

This made me think - Seeing as a lot of the games out already are not
multithreaded, they do not show a major performance boost on a Dualie,
sometimes they even show a slow down. Does this mean XP is multithreaded?

Thanks,

Neil
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No, that doesn't really have any relation to whether XP is or is not
multithreaded (it is).

Threading does not refer to the number of processors or cores that an
application or OS can deal with. Multithreading can occur on single-core,
single-processor systems, if the programmer implemented it.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick Keenan said:
No, that doesn't really have any relation to whether XP is or is not
multithreaded (it is).

Threading does not refer to the number of processors or cores that an
application or OS can deal with. Multithreading can occur on
single-core,
single-processor systems, if the programmer implemented it.

HTH
-pk
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If you want dual core performance, you should look at AMD X2. Intel
dual-cores are not true dual cores. they are two single cores fused
together, but they are not connected on-die. They can only communicate and
see each other by going out to the Northbridge chip. Intel dual core procs
cannot run multi-threaded apps at anywhere near the speed that AMD X2 chips
can.

Bobby
 
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