Quad Core Processors, Are They Important? - Should we upgrade to QuadCore Processors or is it just a waste of mone

Sory if repost.. I think, for now, Quad Core not to useful.. just make your money run out.. Give your comment..

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It's not a necessity yet, but for sure it's a long term investment. Plus, I don't mind the extra cores, I do a lot of movie editing, it will make encoding things so much faster. Right now, duo core is a requirement, not quad, maybe in 2 years, but not now.

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Important I have to say yes, its not only a significant development advancement but also a solid investment as xbox said as well it CAN be utilized already with proper applications. Whether or not its a necessity is another question entirely. I think it's obvious its not a necessity as I'm running an old single core processor and can still manage to play the new games comming out (not well, but my vid card also sucks haha). Other applications all also still run so the necessity angle is obviously not a factor. However to see speed boosts the core idea is the only way they have to continue expanding processor speeds at the rates consumers demand at this time so I assume we'll see more and more cores as time goes on, unless they figure out a new material or process to use in the processor construction.

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The big issue (and why we see more multi-core chips coming out now) is that we are reaching the limit of how high we can crank clock speeds...it's to the point where the die size is not small enough for the electrons to get through the chip before the next clock cycle starts.

So until a new, smaller fabrication process is developed, we're gonna see the clock speeds plateau and the number of cores increase.

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It's pretty amazing, but the problem is the speed of light, and of electrons, is too slow! This is why the big supercomputers have very high degrees of parallelism (thousands of processors!) It also means that programs that will take advantage of the multiple processors have to be designed for the task.

This is where multi-threaded programs perform well. It is also a natural for servers that are running multiple tasks. The place where major computer science is involved, is where a really large-scale problem, like world weather modeling, needs both massive CPU usage, and coupling of the results from each CPU. Fortunately, "normal" people seldom have to deal with such problems!

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It realy depends on what you want, need, already have or want to get.
First of all, what you already have and want to get. I am refering mostly to software because this is what uses your cores. It's nice to have 4 cores, but if your software is only capable of using 2 cores then it's rather useless (unless you can run multiple instances of the software ).
Four cores allow you to do some heavy multitasking tough, but think about this: how often have you multitasked this much that you realy needed 2(3) additional cores ? I already have had such situation, but not that much that it's worth buying 2 or 3 extra cores .

So imho, quad cores processors aren't important at the moment for the average (and above average) user. Quad core processors are only interesting for people that realy need it and this group of people is rather limited and tends to be a group of professional users.

 

 

 

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I have a dual core processor at the moment, and I have to say its nice to have that little more speed. For the moment, I believe that most people (the average population) doesn't need 4 cores. Applications like Video Editing, Gaming Consoles or Servers that require lots of speed will benefit from 4 cores (or more if thats the way its goes) but for most, it would be wasted.

The way that computer applications and computers themselves are going, there will be a day when 4 cores will be standard (that might be past our time, but you never know ) and new applications and games will require the speed. But with that comes other requirements, which will probably increase as times goes too!

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By the way, this just came to my mind, those who realy need more cores don't even need quad cores cpu's, they just buy themself some Opterons or Xeons and put them in a multi-cpu configuration. The only advantage Quad Core offers is that fact that it's a all-in-one solution.

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I agree that it depends on the user, I believe that most people don't really need quad core processors yet, but in the future it might be a need, but maybe even something else will appear, as most people I mean people who use simple software and browse the web and do other online stuff.. Gamers who want to play really new games with all the possibilities, usually has to upgrade their computers quite often and need to invest a lot of money every time something new appears and of course as been said, for video editing, rendering and etc. some extra speed can't do any harm, but most of that stuff also can be done by having lots of computers in the network or a company and as I know every computer can help and share it's CPU time for other computer for whatever he is doing, I do it with my brothers computer, we share the CPU time every time we compile something in Linux ;]

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