Lord Twilight
Limp Gawd
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I was also talking to a friend and he was saying that the quad cores are clocked down slower than the dual cores? Meaning that an E6600 would be faster than a Q6600 in single-threaded or poorly multi-threaded apps.
I'm not all that deep into this technology (although this friend is a programmer), but I haven't seen anything indicating that the quad cores are slower but with more cores. I think he's just not up-to-speed with Intel processors? He goes on about how awesome AMD's 4x4 will be compared to Intel because they are native quad instead of dual-dual core. I'm not arguing, I'm just wondering if there is any truth to this?
I'm not all that deep into this technology (although this friend is a programmer), but I haven't seen anything indicating that the quad cores are slower but with more cores. I think he's just not up-to-speed with Intel processors? He goes on about how awesome AMD's 4x4 will be compared to Intel because they are native quad instead of dual-dual core. I'm not arguing, I'm just wondering if there is any truth to this?