Rumour or any truth ?

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 12:58

Hi there I am not sure if this is a rumour or just someone talking who is telling me something they heard ( if that makes sense !) anyway i was talking today to a guy at my University where i work ,hes in the P.C dept ,and he said that the new Core 2 Duo CPU'S don,t like a lot of the software ,and were built with Windows Vista in mind ,hence they won,t like a lot of the older software thats out ,anyone know more about this . :confused:

Robert · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:07

Total rubbish.

Rob43 · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:13

What a load of crap & this guy works in I.T :eek:

Sounds like he ain't got a clue what he's on about

Rob

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:13

thanks

Robert said:
Total rubbish.

Right thanks for that , i,ll forgive this guy who told me this ! mind you he is from Poland Ha Ha! bless him

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:15

yeah

Rob43 said:
What a load of crap & this guy works in I.T Sounds like he ain't got a clue what he's on about

Rob

Yeah made me think too ! whats worse hes got a ****** Degree in the thing !! :rolleyes:

total crazy ! hope he doesn,t tell to many people this or Intel will be sending him a nice :eek:

letter !

Rob43 · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:17

Maybe it's just polish software they don't work with

Rob

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 13:45

HA HA !

Rob43 said:
Maybe it's just polish software they don't work with

Rob

HA HA ! Nice one Rob43 ,like your style ,i take it you got a C2D CPU ?

Rob43 · 8 Jan 2007 at 14:35

Sure do mate

See sig

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 14:37

woops !

Rob43 said:
Sure do mate See sig

Woops Mate sorry should put me eye balls in ha ! so i take it you think that the E6600 even if not clocked would beat any AMD CPU ? :rolleyes:

allllec · 8 Jan 2007 at 16:03

x86 and x64 code is x86 and x64 code, i cannot see any reason why a conroe would fail to run older software poorly. Sounds like totaly BS imo

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 17:54

right

allllec said:
x86 and x64 code is x86 and x64 code, i cannot see any reason why a conroe would fail to run older software poorly. Sounds like totaly BS imo

Thanks for all your comments ,think this guy will be getting an ear bashing later ! can,t see why Intel would develop a new CPU knowing that Windows was going to release Vista ,seems they would be teaming up with them or at least making sure a CPU going for £200.00 + would work ! :rolleyes:

NathanE · 8 Jan 2007 at 18:59

Perhaps the confusion stems from this: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8503943&postcount=117

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 19:03

thanks

NathanE said:
Perhaps the confusion stems from this: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8503943&postcount=117

Thanks for the link ,and seems nothing to worry about ,just a bit of Chinese Whispers me thinks ha !

Tetras · 8 Jan 2007 at 19:20

Some (old and new-er) apps can be a bit of a pain to get working properly with a dual core CPU but whether Vista will handle that any better I'm not sure.

jamjar · 8 Jan 2007 at 19:39

ummmmmmmmm

Tetras said:
Some (old and new-er) apps can be a bit of a pain to get working properly with a dual core CPU but whether Vista will handle that any better I'm not sure.

So still worth going with Intel over AMD then ? i,m with AMD at present ,but just wonder if its all hype regarding this Core 2 Duo CPU ? is it a lot of a difference over 64 X2 amd ? as i,m not into overclocking .. :confused:

NathanE · 8 Jan 2007 at 19:52

Conroe

, no question about it

Tetras · 8 Jan 2007 at 19:57

It has nothing to do with hype, when it was released (and now to a lesser degree) Core 2 Duo was a massive leap over the Pentium 4 and both faster and cheaper (that is the lesser degree part, AMD cut prices pretty heavily) than the Athlon X2 equivalents (it also overclocks like a rabid hell beast). There are LOADS of reviews and benchmarks on the net that prove this fact and I'm not going to work google to prove it (you can do that yourself

)

At the lower end there isn't so much in it at stock but especially with the cheaper C2D compatible motherboards available now (at release it was mostly expensive mobos) there is just no reason to go AM2, they don't even hold up on power consumption and heat output (the P4 Prescotts and earlier dual cores were horrible) as Core 2 Duo is so power efficient.

Smurfy · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:00

Id like to know exacly what he said and not your take on it.

The majority of older software is not multithreaded meaning it can only take use of a single core, that doesnt mean core 2 dual wont do well with it, but its not optimized for it newer software vista included will handle multicpu systems more effiently.

Jonny L · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:06

jamjar said:
Hi there I am not sure if this is a rumour or just someone talking who is telling me something they heard ( if that makes sense !) anyway i was talking today to a guy at my University where i work ,hes in the P.C dept ,and he said that the new Core 2 Duo CPU'S don,t like a lot of the software ,and were built with Windows Vista in mind ,hence they won,t like a lot of the older software thats out ,anyone know more about this .

He obviously doesn't know what he is talking about, this is a growing problem with people who work in this area of computing, they do a course from an agency then think they know it, if they don't they bs and say that they read it somewhere if they are wrong.

You should read up on it and then tell him why he is wrong next time you talk about it.