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Dual-processor

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I know a dual processor doesn't double the clock speed of a computer [GHz] but what does it help on
 
Large amounts of 3D rendering/editing/modeling, video editing/rendering as well as large scale virtualization projects.
 
It helps for software that can scale well with more than 12 threads.
Typically if you don't know why you would need it you don't need it since it mostly comes to graphics and or server type stuff.
 
Op do you mean dual socket?

In the old days before IBM pioneered dual core, your options for SMP were single core per socket. Windows scheduler was pretty braindead and having SMP would give you one whole CPU for it to go full-retard on. This often meant you could burn a CD and play games at the same time, things like that.

Now multi-core affords the ability to put more processing power on less interconnects and a smaller package.

Multi-socket is still there for servers and professional workstations.
 
I was given a gift about a year ago to build a computer in the $10,000 range I had ask for some help on the built in [H]. Im pretty noob at this but I do have an interest in computers not enough to make my career though. I ended getting an SR-2 classified motherboard with two westmere intel processors I ended up selling the parts but never really understood how two processors help me out
 
multithreaded applications is where they shine. if you built a system like this, with that kind of budget and didn't understand the benefit of it... well, that's almost negligent.
 
Reading this made me sign on and reply. Where do I begin?

First off.. lol
Second.. I'd say that's negligence to the max. Spending that amount of money without researching what you really need just made me face palm myself.
Third.. I'll just keep my last comment to myself.
 
camelass said:
Reading this made me sign on and reply. Where do I begin?

First off.. lol
Second.. I'd say that's negligence to the max. Spending that amount of money without researching what you really need just made me face palm myself.
Third.. I'll just keep my last comment to myself.
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no name calling :D
 
Dual sockets means more cores total which means under ideal conditions they can do twice as much computing work. The trouble is that in general only things like video encoding and some specialist applications can actually use more than four cores.

If your workload can be split between multiple machines (e.g. encoding a big batch of videos) it's generally better to do so as dual socket capable processors cost quite a bit more than their single socket equivalents. This is made even worse at the momenet by the fact that the dual socket sandy bridge stuff isn't out yet.

Dual socket systems also typically support more ram than single socket ones. For example the single socket LGA1366 systems only seems to support 24GB while dual socket LGA1366 systems support many times that from a combination of twice as many channels, supporting three modules per channel rather than two and supporting larger modules. I have a dual socket machine under my desk at uni for this reason.
 
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