[SATLUG] Core 2 Quad for how much?!

[pixelnate]

Alex Bartonek wrote:
> --- Geoff <geoff at w5omr.shacknet.nu> wrote:
>   
>> According to my gurus, over in Spring.. that's the
>> 'stripped down, 
>> Celeron version' of a Core 2 Quad.
>>
>> not really 4 cpu's on one die, rather a pair of
>> dual's, sharing some of 
>> the same circuitry.
>>
>>
>>     
AFAIK, All the current Intel Core 2 Quads are that way. That is what 
makes the AMD Barcelona so appealing, (and why it was so late in coming) 
it is truly quad core, not a pair of pairs. Of course the performance 
difference isn't major (~3-5% I think), yet.
>> well that bites.. but it sure does run well in some
>> apps vs a core 2 duo.  Maybe I should just stick to
>> the core 2 duo for now.  Does Linux support the quad
>> processor and can utilize it properly?  Or is it
>> individual software that has to be written to take
>> advantage of it?
>>
>>     
Depends on what you mean by "support it". Blender running on a linux box 
will gladly use as many cores as you have for rendering. You tell it how 
many processors you have and it will take advantage of them. If you are 
talking about the OS splitting the load evenly across the cores 
regardless of how the apps were written, then no. At least not yet. This 
is one of the things that is supposed to be included in the next version 
of OSX, Leopard. It is rumored that the OS will split the entire system 
load across all cores evenly. Perhaps the linux kernel guys will follow 
suit in the near future.


~Nate

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