Originally posted by R@nSiD
With your quadcore ull not get 4x2.4 (9.6Ghz), its more likely you will get around 7 or 8 Ghz. This is due to the way the Intel Chip Architecture works.

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Originally posted by R@nSiD
I think if your going to upgrade then upgrade ur processor to x64 and jump up the speed at the same time. With your quadcore ull not get 4x2.4 (9.6Ghz), its more likely you will get around 7 or 8 Ghz. This is due to the way the Intel Chip Architecture works.

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Originally posted by R@nSiD
a common misconception is that they dont. Multicore porcessors do work like that, its dual/quad processor machine that will work in the way you are thinking.

A machine with more that 1 physical processor will not share its load until it has to. a processor with multi core will share is bandwidth increasing the speeds of the machines, letting intel and AMD to meet the 10Ghz speeds they stated they would be at by now.

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Originally posted by R@nSiD
No m8.

These chips were designed to allow Intel & AMD to push the processor past its limit by allowing it to share its calculations instead of working to its limit and then passing its overload to another processor (thats how dual/quad processor machines work). The multicore systems share out all the work evenly (or as evenly as it can) over both or all 4 processors within the chip. This then increases the abiltiy of the processors to handle calculations (bandwidth), therefore increasing the processor speed. Again x64 processors will process faster than x32.

The reason behind all this was they found that they could not safely push a single processor past the 3.5 or 4Ghz mark without it overheating and dieing, so the bright idea was to split them into various sizes and place 2 or 4 together to increase speed, the original old processor was old news and along cam Dual Core and Quad Core.

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