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[Nvyseal]

images/news/intel.jpgOver the weekend, Intel made a few price adjustments to its microprocessor lineup, with the largest cut being made to its E8500 Core 2 Duo processor.

That chip, the fastest (3.16-GHz) Core 2 Duo processor that Intel sells, was trimmed 31 percent to $183. Intel also cut the price of the E8400 (a 3.00-GHz version) to the same $183 price point -- when Intel does that, it's a signal that the E8400 will be soon phased out in favor of the faster processor. Intel also created a bit of a logjam at the low end of the family by slicing the E7200 13 percent to $113, the same price as the E4600 and E4500, which run slower and only have 2 Mbytes of level-2 cache.

The cuts to the Core 2 Duo line are simply Intel making a bit of headroom for its Core 2 Quad lineup; the slowest processor in that product family, the 2.4-GHz Q6600, was reduced by a scant 14 percent to $193.

Intel also made a few minor reductions to the price of its Xeon processors.

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[VROSA]

With quads costing just $193 i wonder who would by a duo.

[m.oreilly]

vrosa x64, on Jul 22 2008, 12:07 PM, said:

With quads costing just $193 i wonder who would by a duo.

peeps that don't OC. as there are not many apps that take advantage of a quad, plus the higher clock of the dually will slice through these non thread aware apps faster than the lower clocked quad would.

[m.oreilly]

scaramonga, on Jul 22 2008, 02:43 PM, said:

My Quad rips through an encoding session (video) in 7mins, my G/F's core 2 duo does it in 45mins...

um, is your gf's cpu a 3 ghz? is your quad oc'ed? same software? what encoding app you using?

[Camaro]

sounds like convertx has some multiprocessing capability.

[m.oreilly]

hey cam, isn't that that app we used to do avi to dvd? didn't know it was multi, though scara must have a more recent version...

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...and supports Multi-Core processors!

[m.oreilly]

just installed that there convertx thing. i did a convert in 15min, and watching the performance monitor, it doesn't seem that that app is really all that multi core aware (maybe four cores, but i only had 23% usage during the whole thing, with 8...)

[m.oreilly]

scaramonga, on Jul 22 2008, 06:00 PM, said:

Must be the 'crappy Xeon' thing or me running '32bit' MO?

well, i'd believe a 7min from you ( ), but we're talking video conversion, right? that said, it must have been a mighty lean video, if that app is anywhere near being really multi threaded.

[Nvyseal]

has anyone tried any affinity management software?

lets you allocate your programs to a single core or spread them out to multiple cores

http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php (for 64 and 32) << This i heard works well

http://www.mlin.net/SMPSeesaw.shtml (for 32)

[Camaro]

m.oreilly, on Jul 22 2008, 05:51 PM, said:

hey cam, isn't that that app we used to do avi to dvd? didn't know it was multi, though scara must have a more recent version...

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Yep, I actually got a recent build of it, though I am using the old X2, but if your seeing a 23% usage across all cores then it really is doing its multi threading job well, cuz other wise it would be using close to 100% of one core
my dad uses it as well with a A64 single core 3200 and when he uses it the computer is not good for anything else, its maxed at 100% for abit over an hour. depending on the vid.

[m.oreilly]

Camaro, on Jul 22 2008, 09:52 PM, said:

Yep, I actually got a recent build of it, though I am using the old X2, but if your seeing a 23% usage across all cores then it really is doing its multi threading job well, cuz other wise it would be using close to 100% of one core
my dad uses it as well with a A64 single core 3200 and when he uses it the computer is not good for anything else, its maxed at 100% for abit over an hour. depending on the vid.

i think if the app was really multi core/thread aware, i'd get a faster result (still dont belive you, scara). that said, my daughter stated it takes almost one hour to do on her single core athlon 2.4, and if scara's at almost twice the clock of one of my cpus (two quad @ 2.00), i would have been at an even heat. he is also using the earlier iteration of the quad, w/the bigger/older die...