$3000 for two quad-core processors from Penryn family, $650 for a special mainboard and $200 for memory: this is a new exclusive dual-processor platform for enthusiasts from
Intel. However, do investments like that really make sense for the sake of unattainable performance?
Aggressive promotion of multi-core ideology has evidently stimulated increased interest in dual-processor desktop systems on the users’ as well as on the manufacturers’ part. The thing is that the launch of dual-core and
quad-core processors pushes software developers to start paying more attention to optimizing their products for multi-threaded environments. As a result, many contemporary applications that require significant resources benefit a lot from running on CPUs with multiple cores.
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Review: Xbit-Labs
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Feb 23, 2008, 03:17 PM
