Re: AMD vs. Intel

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jones, John (US) skrev  den 11-07-2007 20:59:
> I'd heartily encourage everyone buying a new PC to go dual (or quad if
> budget allows) core.  There's very little price premium and you do get
> nearly twice the potential performance.  Even if your apps are
> single-threaded and can't take advantage of the second core, the OS will
> use one while your app uses the other.
>
>   
The single situation where multi-cores/multi-CPU's really benefit, is 
when you have a process run amok.  On a single core machine, you can 
hardly get to the task manager to beat it on its head.  On these new 
machines, it is still snappy even in this situation.

By the way, in the old days NT was for one-two processor machines, is 
XP/Vista limited similarly?