>>What's the scoop on performance for dual core machines?
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>>For example...
>>a 3.0gz P4 vs. 1.66-GHz dual core.
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>>Basicly, trying to figure out between these two.
>>http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f1-1839153.html
>>and
>>http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f1-445351.html
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>>My guess is that the dual core stuff requires software that's actually capable of using the technology. Seeing how I'm a programmer, I'd have stuff like SQL Server 2005, VFP9, .NET 2005 perhaps...stuff like that on it. Seems like the P4 one is a little bit cheaper, and has more GHz - but obviously there is more to it than that...anyone know which is gonna perform better or any suggestions that would help in making a good decision?
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>P830 (Dual Core 3GHz Pentium processor) is 60% faster than P530(single core 3GHz Pentium processor), when PC process simultaneously 2 applications.
>For example Movie processing + you do some work with Photoshop simultaneously
>
>If you will use it for running VFP application - there is no diffrence.

Interesting. So basicly if you're one to run a lot of applications at the same time (which I do) - then that's when the dual-core comes in handy..right? So if I was running VFP and SQL Server 2005 on a 1.66 dualcore machine, it would probably run better than a P4 3.0...??