$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 (
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...lltrail.html#). 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 (
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...ulltrail.html#) 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 (
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...lltrail.html)*
*Please Read DH's Review Here (
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/...w/index.php).*
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