Does anyone here still use a single core pc?

Ev0 · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:19

Yup my home pc is a lovely 8 years old now running a Shuttle with a P4 Northwood clocked to a whopping 3.something. In it's life it's had it's gfx card updated twice, a bit more ram thrown in and the disks changed.

Still runs day to day stuff fine, boots up and shuts down quickly, runs all the office stuff I need. Last 'new' game I played on it was MW2 though, don't think it'd cope with much else newer.

But do still use it for gaming now and then with TF2, quite partial to a quick go on generals now and again as well.

I could do with a new one though

And the netbook is also single core.

zipp0r · 20 Jan 2011 at 14:57

Subliminal Aura said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo

VDPAU not supported

I have a HD2400pro

i looked at that and mine supports some kind of video features, but not enough to run a hd video ?

Subliminal Aura · 20 Jan 2011 at 15:47

zipp0r said:
i looked at that and mine supports some kind of video features, but not enough to run a hd video ?

enough ? You mean none

Buy yourself a cheap nasty card than can do feature set C and you're laughing.

I picked up a 8400gs g98 for a tenner and acceleration on that was sweet too.

Krislord · 20 Jan 2011 at 21:17

Athlon 64 3800 socket 939 here

- going to sandy bridge once prices sort themselves out. I overclocked it last week for the first time whilst bored.

Greg0986 · 20 Jan 2011 at 22:16

I have a single core laptop if that counts

andy_mk3 · 20 Jan 2011 at 22:59

There's a P2 computer in the house somewhere, not really used anymore, but all set up and fully working, runs XP

MaxP779 · 20 Jan 2011 at 23:11

I got a bunch of old CPUs in a box but nothing single core is still used. I had an A64 3200+ back when it was the 2nd best cpu apart from the FX51. Had that from 2003ish-2005ish then i got an opteron 170 and havent used a single core since.

THE_EGG · 22 Jan 2011 at 22:14

Just about to retire my 10 year old Pentium 4 3.4GHz based system with a AGP Radeon HD 3850 as I've gotten to the stage that I can't play new games on it any longer, especially when you have a 24" monitor and dream of playing games in their native resolution of 1920x1200. It's served me well and considering I'm a system builder I should have done this long ago but as it ran everything I asked of it I never saw the need. Going to build an i5 or i7 system in the new few weeks and looking forward to it. At the same time I'll be sad taking apart the old P4 system but I've just had a look on eBay and theres components like my Asus P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard that are still selling for a fair price so will get them all up for auction

AndyOcUK · 22 Jan 2011 at 22:41

MaxP779 said:
I got a bunch of old CPUs in a box but nothing single core is still used. I had an A64 3200+ back when it was the 2nd best cpu apart from the FX51. Had that from 2003ish-2005ish then i got an opteron 170 and havent used a single core since.

Pretty much same here - went from XP3200+ to 754 SKT 3400 then 939 SKT 3700, FX 57

SKT 939 FX 60 was my 1st and only dual core.....went to a Q6600 (G0) after that. Now on a 970.

Still have a P4E 3.0GHz and a 700MHz duron kicking around somewhere. The only single core I still use is an Atom 1.6GHz in my ION netbook.

Interesting thread TBH.....until I started listing my old CPU's here, it was easy to forget how long multicore chips have been with us.

CmdrTobs · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:05

Judgeneo said:
+1

I stopped using single core on desktops a long time ago though

What is funny is that the early smart phones were all dual core OMAP based CPU's. So in that sense your first dual core machine may have been a phone.

jamesfreddie · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:22

My windows home server has a celeron 440.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:11

I recently tried using Sempron 3400+, or something equally pathetic with Windows 7... Even with a SSD the experience was absolutely terrible. Just sticking a £30 dual core Athlon in that rig resulted in an amazing change.

A socket 939 3700+ was the last single cored CPU I had in my main system, that went in 2008.

Nocky24 · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:24

Lunatic Dreyfus said:
A socket 939 3700+ was the last single cored CPU I had in my main system, that went in 2008.

Exactly the same here, apart from it was early 2009 for me I believe. Then I caught the "upgrade far too much bug" after that and here I am

man_from_uncle · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:37

The last single core I used in my own rig, was an opteron 144 which overclocked very nicely to 2.8ghz with fast ram.

But the best single core machine I ever made used that last generation of AMD64 4000+ chips. The stepping was freaky and it overclocked to 3.2 ghz almost out of the box. Combining that with a 8800gt and 2 gigs of ram, it actually played everything on the market at the time reasonably well (at least until Crysis came along).

Oh, and my sig is way out of date. But that was a nice rig too when I made it.

ferr250 · 23 Jan 2011 at 20:54

Pretty sure there's one powering my George Forman Grill

j.col · 23 Jan 2011 at 21:03

my kids pc has a P4 3.0GHz, 1gb ram and ati 1250 onboard graphics.

AceTK · 23 Jan 2011 at 21:04

My old laptop is a single core p4 2.8ghz

RageQuit© · 23 Jan 2011 at 22:13

My pc has an AMD Sempron 3400+...done well over 5 years but desperate for an upgrade

zipp0r · 31 Jan 2011 at 02:30

man_from_uncle said:
But the best single core machine I ever made used that last generation of AMD64 4000+ chips. The stepping was freaky and it overclocked to 3.2 ghz almost out of the box.

im using one still

man_from_uncle · 31 Jan 2011 at 17:41

zipp0r said:
im using one still

I think I gave mine to a friend. Never pushed it to it's limits, but as I say even on stock cooling and a very small voltage bump it went up to 3.1 something. After putting a Scyth Ninja on it and giving it a more manly voltage bump it got to 3.3ghz or so. There was more play in the ram ratio and timings, but I only spent a few hours testing it and I underclocked it back to something more pedestrian before giving it away.