How many Cores do you have?

[Taz]

I think you would be hard pressed to find half-core dual-processor computers

My processors have a single core and I have two of them so that makes is 1 x 2 to me

[DGhost]

shieeet... my two primary computers are both single cores (one is an Athlon 64 3200+ - old school tech, but it still works well. the other is a Pentium M 2.13 Laptop only thing the desktop has that the laptop doesn't is multiple monitors - everything else the laptop is better at ). I do have a Core 2 Duo laptop here though, it's quite nice and the battery life is really phenominal.

[agallag]

My home rig has one dual-core Athlon64 X2 4600+.

For more fun, at work we just got in a couple of IBM x3950 boxes. They have 8 sockets, filled with dual core, hyperthreaded Xeons. That's 16 physical and 32 virtual processors. The task manager is, shall we say, busy. They've also got 32GB of RAM. Big beastly SQL machines.

[spadnos]

Weeeelllll, it's like this

My main desktop is a single single-core Athlon 1800.
My laptop is a single single-core P3 1GHz.
My newly upgraded experimentation machine is a single single-core A64-3500 (used to be an Athlon XP2200)
But of course I voted based on my development machine, which was recently upgraded to dual dual-core Opteron 275s. Holy crap did that make a difference. The speed increase (as measured by compiling EMC2 or Linux) was actually greater than the ratio of total core speed (4x2.2 GHz instead of 2x1.8) multiplied by the ratio of HT speed (1000 vs 800), even though every other component in the system was the same! (except the fans). Compilation of the entire Linux kernel and modules (using the .config from an updated Ubuntu 6.06 install) takes about 8 minutes.

Anyway - I'm curious to see the performance (and price ) of Doc's new machine.

- Steve

[Dr Mordrid]

I'm calling it QuadZilla

Tyan Thunder n3600B: $300
Opteron 2218 x2: $1,200
Crucial DDR2/667 ECC 4x 1G: $420
ATI AIW X1900 PCIe 16x: $220
320 Gb SATA boot: $110
1Tb SATA RAID5 (3x Maxtor 500GB SATA II): $500

Had the opticals, case, p/s etc.

~ $2,800 new expenses and its deductable

Still recovering from the flu & optimizing, but very, very fast.

[GT98]

Core Duo in my laptop
Core 2 Duo in the main PC
Single core in the server

[Tjalfe]

ATI AIW X1900 PCIe 16x: $220

Just got one for $185CDN+tax ~$215

[Evildead666]

Two DUal core machines and some Epia single core boards dotted around...