CPU thoughts

[DaveB]

Cheers Nige

ATB

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[ianhind]

My understanding is the same as NigelB. And that is why my wife's PC has a quad core so that when she has Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, etc all open at the same time, the PC still responds to the keyboard! On the previous single core P4 (but with "hyper threading", ie pretend dual core), everything could grind to a halt.

I can manage with a E6750 and probably will for a while. I seem to skip a generation of CPUs (P3, P4 [478 chip], Core2Duo). So what's next for me? The one after i7?

Ian

[DaveB]

Hi Ian..

Just so that I get this right in my head.. are all those progs designed to utilise the additional cores or is it simply a case of when one gets bogged down.. it passes the baton to the others??

ATB

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[tonymadge]

Good question Dave.... I don't know hopefully someone will, I see myself looking at an e8500/8600 (dual core but it will mainly be for FS9) as long as it is E0 stepping so I cn clock the bugger, likewise I want an Intel chipset board as the Nvidia chipset dont seem to overclock as well....

[tonymadge]

I am now after chatting with a manufacturer a D0 stepping i7 920 that will run at 4Ghz! with an ATI 4850 card and 6gb ram plus two optical drives and two 500gb drives with a better air fan on the cpu so its all ready to rock ..just haggling on the price...looking at the best part of £1100 ooeer :o

[DaveB]

Sheesh matey :o I take it you're running a 64bit OS otherwise that amount of ram will be pointless. I noted a few days ago when checking on Crucial that their system check advised splendiferous performance with 6 or 8gig on my mobo and I couldn't understand why. Reading the small print, they do mention that this amount is OS specific. I wonder how many folk fall into the trap though :think:

ATB

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[TSR2]

Once again..... I think I'll put up a sticky. FS (9 or X) is a 32bit app and WILL NOT USE ALL OF THAT RAM REGARDLESS OF THE OPPERATING SYSTEM :brick:

[DaveB]

Oh yes Ben and fair comment but it IS true isn't it that the 32bit OS won't see above around 3gb, maybe 3.5gb regardless of what you're running be it FSX, 9, or Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends My point was folk are only to eager to advise buying buckets of ram when sometimes the OS won't see it let alone any application. Your point highlights that the 64bit OS WILL see it but this is no guarantee that the progs running on it will ;-)

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[tonymadge]

Ben I think we are aware of 32 bit systems only seeing 3Gb Ram, however the system I was talking about comes with 6Gb as standard so three will sit on its bum doing bugger all.... ;-)

[TSR2]

Yes chaps, thats it. Reason for the rant was I'd just had the same conversation twice independantly in the previous 24hrs and I could swear its a conspiracy LOL