Muti-Core, Fast or Fiction?

These days technology is advancing at an incredible rate.  Personal computers are using CPU’s that have multiple CPU’s within them commonly referred to as DUO (2) or QUAD (4) Core technology.  Traditionally a CPU’s speed was measured by its clock cycle whether it be 2.5 or 3.0 Ghz.  If you take a similar processor with the same clock cycle but having multiple cores, then the speed is multiplied exponentially.

This increase in performance is only truly realized when used in 64 bit environment.  The general public is commonly accustomed to using computers with 32 operating systems.  These systems can only recognize only so much ram and will use multiple processors or cores but only one at a time, never simultaneously.  One CPU core would do calculations while the other CPU core does others.   In a 64 bit environment the multiple CPU cores will simultaneously calculate the same jobs exponentially processing the jobs faster.  It’s like having four people finish a single job much faster  consistently and going from job to job instead of having four people work on multiple jobs to their maximum ability will all the job calculated at different speeds based on the type of task.  The instruction sets of the CPU are usually managed based on the configuration of the hardware on the motherboard.

The speed of computers is so fast these days that the true limit of some of these processors is not noticed unless your computer is for high end media production or serious gaming.  And some of the performance is marginal because of the advancing requirements of the new operating systems.  If Windows 2000 professional was able to utilized a quad-core  processor and eight or more gigs of ram is loading and processing ability would be blinding fast because the basic requirements to run the OS are far lower than today’s Windows 7 OS.

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Jeremy Gibson | PCQuikFix

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