Dual Core or Quad Core?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Jun 29 16:41:20 EDT 2007


On Jun 29, 2007, at 13:27, Jerry Feldman wrote:

>  The 1.6Ghz vs. 2.0 Ghz is
> minuscule, but make sure you don't get less cache.

Yeah, what Jerry said - and make sure you're not losing memory bus  
speed either.  I've been shocked how important memory speed is to  
tasks like this.  I'd probably take 4 cores at 1.3GHz vs. 8 cores at  
800Mhz.

-Bill

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