ok i have an easy method to explain dual core/quad core
here it is
When you are moving from a house to another house, you have to move a whole bunch of items from one house to the other one. If you only have 1 moving van, it will take say...4 hours to get the job done, moving back and forth at say...50 miles an hour. just for the heck of it, say that 50 miles an hour is 3ghz. thats a single core processor.
now, if you have 2 moving vans, you can get double the work done in the same time because you can move more things (process data) at the same time. even if you have two of the moving vans going at 30 miles an hour, they will still get more work done in the same time. that means you can have slower speeds (clock speeds) and still have the the same ammount (or more) or stuff getting moved.
now add a new engine to the 2 moving vans (new architecture, in CPU terms) and more space in each van (more cache), it will be much faster
clear enough?
Precisely.
Man some people on this board really surprise me with both their lack of knowledge and unrestrainable impulse to hit the submit reply button.
There is very little in the way of software yet that has been written to take full advantage of dual core cpu's without even thinking about the quads. I think Folding and other number crunching programmes may be the only programmes right now that are optimised for quad core, it's been a while since I looked so things may have been released lately I guess.
ok i have an easy method to explain dual core/quad core
here it is
When you are moving from a house to another house, you have to move a whole bunch of items from one house to the other one. If you only have 1 moving van, it will take say...4 hours to get the job done, moving back and forth at say...50 miles an hour. just for the heck of it, say that 50 miles an hour is 3ghz. thats a single core processor.
now, if you have 2 moving vans, you can get double the work done in the same time because you can move more things (process data) at the same time. even if you have two of the moving vans going at 30 miles an hour, they will still get more work done in the same time. that means you can have slower speeds (clock speeds) and still have the the same ammount (or more) or stuff getting moved.
now add a new engine to the 2 moving vans (new architecture, in CPU terms) and more space in each van (more cache), it will be much faster
clear enough?