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Does anyone here still use a single core pc?

Last single core in my own rig was a S939 3200+ venice. It clocked up to about 2.7 without much fuss, but was swiftly replaced by an x2 4800+ @2.6ish, and then my current (soon to be replaced!) Opteron 165 @3Ghz.

There's still an old Athlon XP 3000+ in the family, chugging along surprising well. I wish the mobo had SATA as I fancied putting my Raptor in it for a laugh, when I get an SSD.
 
Beginning reading this, I was convinced my gf's dog-slow laptop was single core...no, dual core! Just not enough RAM and a super-slow HD :)

Surprisingly my first dual core...was actually in my iPod Mini! I programmed them and they were indeed dual core. Just not cache coherent, which was a bit of a PITA.
 
I do, on a £2000 computer if you can believe it.

I play games like farcry 2 and mw2 on it.

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Crickey, that computer was top of the line, what 6 years ago? Can it still run modern games?

It was before AMD got a foothold with it's AMD64 in the high end retail market. I had a well clocked barton core at roughly the same time with just a vanilla 6800. FEAR was the first game that gave me trouble, but i imagine that rig played it ok.
 
Haha that was also before we started seeing posts on here like "I can only see X cores in the task manager, where are the other ones?" :D
 
I have an Intel Pentium III 933MHz, 256MB PC133 Ram and Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro 64BM (GeForce 2 GTS Pro 64MB) with windows 98SE and winXP dual boot.

It's quick and snappy in the old 1998-2001 games I use it for... it's running some older classics like Janes WW2 Fighters much much better than some of my newer stuff.

I also have an Intel Pentium IV 2.4GHz Willamette, 512MB DDR Ram and Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 Kyro II 64MB for some light gaming and office use.
 
man_from_uncle said:
Crickey, that computer was top of the line, what 6 years ago? Can it still run modern games?

It was before AMD got a foothold with it's AMD64 in the high end retail market. I had a well clocked barton core at roughly the same time with just a vanilla 6800. FEAR was the first game that gave me trouble, but i imagine that rig played it ok.
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Yep 2006, top of the line :)

I play mw2 and farcry on it :)
 
I still have a single core pc,
Running well and don't really experience much problems,

Celeron processor at stock speed of 3.20Hz with 2gb of ram.

Was close to building a SB but going to wait not cause of the whole chipset saga
 
I am still running with my Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz here!!!

I was finally going to upgrade to a new SB system this month but I'm now going to have to wait just a few more months.
 
A laptop I bought in August 2002 still gets occasional use, mainly for F1 live timing. It contains a P4M at 1.6Ghz.
 
Both my parents and my girlfriend have netbooks with carpy single core Atoms in them. Too slow for modern use really.... sorta performance you get off a single core P4.
 
I still have a running A64 3000+ with either a X800xt/xl (i had both) it's got XP on it and very little else but it boots quickly and never seems to hang in general use. Mainly use the mac book pro these days so I'm working on making it into a file server.
 
My desktop is still an AMD 64 3500+. Keep the amount of stuff installed on it purely minimal - just some retro games and absolutely nothing else. Runs pretty smooth. Use my much newer laptop for everything else.
 
I dont use it personally unless my parents are needing some help but my parents use my old p4! still going pretty strong tbh
 
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