Call me a noob but...

Shoseki

Shoseki

Shoseki

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Is it just me or do processors not seem to be getting any faster?

Surely not every application is going to take full advantage of having 4 cores per PC... why is it that they stopped making faster processors?
 
They called off the Ghz race quite a while ago, all about parallel processing and eliminating software bloat now.

Will take time for developers to code for 2 core processors let alone 4+.
 
Yeah once multi thread applications really take off will be when the huge benefit kicks in. You could have faster processors (although maybe they don't have the tech/its not economically viable for them at the moment) but i'd rather have more cores. 3 GHZ on all your apps or 2.4 for each :D
 
I don't get it though. The basis of upgrades now is... a huge paradigm shift in software development?

Not all problems scale well to multiple processors etc. Does windows XP even take proper advantage of multi-core? Do games? What if there aren't multiple cores?

And who made the decision... it was just mutual between amd/intel?

Just seems like everything stagnated. I haven't had to upgrade my PC in 2 years.
 
XP is not bad dividing workloads between cores and does the same for games. But it is not going to be as good as something which programmed for more than single core processors.

Think AMD started it with Intel following after the all the fun they had with the Pentium 4 which led to C2D. Just how the industry works.

Comes in ebbs and flows like everything, if your PC does what is does fine no need to upgrade.
 
id of thought once they sort a program to be multithreaded for 2 cores its pretty simple to spread it across more?
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Generally speaking yeh, just make 4 threads instead of 2, kind of depends on the program though.
 
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