Is MS Flight Simulator an example of a computer-intensive single-threaded
software?
Thanks in advance for the answer.
Michael Eisenstadt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean K. Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:26 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Choice of processors; WAS Re: [PCBUILD] PCBUILD Digest -
5 Jul 2007 to 6 Jul 2007 (#2007-164)
> There are three ways that I know of to increase the speed of today's
logic.
> The first is better design. Improving the design adheres to the law of
> diminishing returns that at some point becomes economically pointless.
The
> second is improving the technology, usually by decreasing the size of the
> transistors and traces. This is a win/win situation, but requires
> technological breakthroughs. The third is by increasing the voltage,
which
> leads to significantly increased heat and wear-and-tear on the circuits,
and
> is not a desirable solution. (This is how overclocking works.)
>
> When more transistors are crammed onto one chip, it is clear that heat
> increases proportionately, so, I think, your son's assertion cannot be
> correct. Rather than increasing the voltage for superior performance (as
in
> overclocking and the ills associated with it), the designers are
increasing
> the computing power with parallel processing - which has its own problems
> that are more tractable because they are software design-based rather than
> hardware based. (Of course there ARE hardware problems, too; I am
> referring to coherency type of problems.)
>
> For players of state-of-the-art single-threaded games or users of
> compute-intensive single-threaded software, a single core cpu **may** be
> better than a dual core one, but most agree that a dual core cpu is better
> for everyone else. Sometime in the future (we see some evidence of it
now),
> many more games will be multi-threaded and will also benefit from
multi-core
> cpu's.
>
> My two cent's worth. :)
>
> Dean Kukral
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Horley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 5:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] PCBUILD Digest - 5 Jul 2007 to 6 Jul 2007
(#2007-164)
>
>
> Hi All:
>
> I don't know a lot about processors, heat build up, Pentium D or dual
> processors etc. but I was discussing this with my son, (instrumentation
> tech. at Suncor) and he says the only reason for using the new dual core
> technology is the manufacturers inability to design something to disperse
> the heat build up in Pentium D and / or faster processors. So, whatever
> works, go for it.
>
> Joe at [log in to unmask]
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