From what I've observed with the increase in multi-core CPU, the mainly only serve 2 purpose. 1. Heavy Multi-Media/Video Editing 2. Latest in gaming. Hence with the ever new stuff that's coming out, the CPU and GPU will continue to be better and better. There's like no limit to it.

Here's an interesting "reason": TG Daily - Ray tracing to kill off the GPU? Intel thinks yes

yeah... theoritically tat's y they developed it... but then the problem lies in the OS and software... apparently software developers don do well in core management... multi-core system don show obvious improvement to an average user which makes it hard for sellers to promote them...

yeah... thanks to the Waaagh between Intel(Tau) vs AMD(Eldar) and ATI(Chaos) vs nVidia(Imperial guards)
they juz wanna show who's the better 1 by producing better technologies(to dominate their respective markets)

LoL,bro true man,at least 2k for u to change to a core processor..takes time man..

No matter what, microprocessor will keep upgrading, that's one of the way to keep the IT economic industries moving.

nope... sub RM1k can get the system unit already... price already drop la...

actually among most IT economics... IT accessories are the best and easiest selling 1... not the proc...

yep. there are not much applications optimized for quad core operations except for some server applications. But some latest game titles will have advantage from multi-cores. i've read it somewhere, try tomshardware.com


1k can barely buy a system lol. but a very basic system u will get. we are in the world of technologies right? we are subconsciously 'forced' to use latest and greatest IT accessories/gadgets to assist us in real life.

Well for AMD, i wonder which one they want to concentrate, making better GPUS or better CPU.

Processor+motherboard+ram+casing+monitor 1k can get?i don't think it's possible..

if for games, dual core is still good enough (tomshardware compared dual and quad core procs in gaming and etc)
Quad core shines in more video encoding and audio encoding and the others.

Quad core or more multi-cores are also for multi-user DB/servers and virtual machine, like VMware or multi access like Citrix. It'll perform better.

However, it won't perform much better than a single core, if you are using it as file server.

nah... only gamers, graphic designers, and video encoders are forced to do so... not some average office clerk...

without monitor around RM850 can get d lor... give u Samsung 17" LCD monitor total up RM1380 can get d lor...
or Dell Recon 17" CRT monitor for RM1099 total(include CPU, mouse, keyboard and monitor)... good enough to office work...

not all games ler...
most new dx10 games make use of quad core and show some increment in gaming performance...

wahhaha...so i need to upgrade my dx9 to dx10 for me to play dx10 games ah? aiyaaa...

dx10 only available in vista if I not mistake...so for XP, you can't upgrade ur dx9 to dx10 though...

currently not many applications out there can support full quad core outcome rite??
maybe in another half a year??

This post has been edited by v1rtual: Oct 28 2007, 04:45 AM

Anyway, Apple desktop (Mac Pro) is running on 8 core if i not mistaken. But the price oso

http://www.applemalaysia.com.my/macpro/

i m using a lappie with an amd turion x2 1.8ghz....anyone know any website that offers a review of this proc?also comparison with mobile C2D; which is better?turion x2 or c2d?

ps: what is the best software to benchmark only proc?is pcmark good enough?

I believe raster is still superior to ray tracing. Especially due to the simple fact of ambience, since games are moving away from player centric maps and schemes and more towards the real life ideal of location centricism ray tracing holds less and less promise. Plus it's bloody inefficient and only deals with first order reflections/refractions well, thus i think it'll work well in old gen FPSes where pure fragging was the goal of the day and a player centric map was at hand, but these days, with more open arenas that are designed for immersion, nah.

Intel has their Larrabee agenda in promoting RT, so don't take their words as fact.

Yeah Cool. Single core still rules.........hahaha