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Just a quick poll for those that know.

For optimization purposes of a program I am writing, I would like to know if you use a multi-core cpu. If you don't know for sure, please don't vote.

Both my computers have multi-core CPUs.

Using Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz, 2401 Mhz

Still rocking my 3ghz Celeron.

Wait, people other than me still use single-cores? xD

From: Widget
Wait, people other than me still use single-cores? xD

my 3500+ AMD is still kicking.

Using a Quad Core. :)

Dual only =/

Q6660 Quad Core :)

From: Wizzup?
Using a Quad Core. :)

+1

No, but it is an AMD 3000+. I consider it as good as an intel dual core.

I have
1 - AMD Phenom 9950 (Quad)
3 - Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual)
1 - AMD Sempron 3400 (Single)
1 - Intel Pentium 4 (Single)

From: Hobbit
1 - AMD Phenom 9950

In risk of getting a spam infraction…

Envy.

EDIT: Welcome back.

Single cored, but I've been thinking of a Quad core since my grand ma died.. :p
EDIT: And I got money..

using 2 quad cores.

2 x q6600 both at 3.2 ghz ;)
Two PC's tho =/

1 dual core pentium thing. Old dell XPS
And I got a dual core laptop 2.

And a single core server. File server….

Im getting the Intel Pent Dual Core for XMas…

From: NaumanAkhlaQ
Im getting the Intel Pent Dual Core for XMas…

How do you know?

Just got a new 3.1 Ghz AMD X2 dual core :)

From: Zytex!
How do you know?

Cmon now, we are all 13+. The surprise and story of xmas is gone! Just tell yo parents what you want or buy it yourself.

Dual Core

pentium, and 41 votes in a day :O

From: jakeyboy29
pentium, and 41 votes in a day :O

;) I R Good pollster. So far, it is looking like it would be worth my while to implement some multi-threading stuff into my app. Its too hard to remove threads if someone is running single core machine.

Runescape is rendering with CPU so it wastes alot of speed.
And then Scar is also using CPU so those who have weak CPU's is screwed.

Should use the new GPU programming for Nvidia and ATI (CUDA or something?)
Like my CPU has 4x 3ghz… Thats about 9 ghx effective.

My HD48700 from ATI has 1,3 Tflops. (Thats ALOT, but its GPU…not a CPU)
And a 1gb gddr5 GRAM. So if that could be used it could check alot faster for colors. But still…most people don't have 8xxx series and up from intel or 38xx from ATI that support that technology :/

From: JanOve
Runescape is rendering with CPU so it wastes alot of speed.
And then Scar is also using CPU so those who have weak CPU's is screwed.

Should use the new GPU programming for Nvidia and ATI (CUDA or something?)
Like my CPU has 4x 3ghz… Thats about 9 ghx effective.

My HD48700 from ATI has 1,3 Tflops. (Thats ALOT, but its GPU…not a CPU)
And a 1gb gddr5 GRAM. So if that could be used it could check alot faster for colors. But still…most people don't have 8xxx series and up from intel or 38xx from ATI that support that technology :/

Well RuneScape doesn't always render with CPU. Why do you think RS HD drops a few OpenGL dll's in the jagex cache? They definitely use your GPU, just not on low detail. :)

And… as far as I know CUDA is only for Nvidia.

From: Buckleyindahouse
Cmon now, we are all 13+. The surprise and story of xmas is gone! Just tell yo parents what you want or buy it yourself.

I do not know what my parent give me to x-mas, I told my dad I wanted a graphic-card but I do not think I'll get one.. :P

quad core on three of my comps.

the rest of the three are dual.

From: JanOve
Runescape is rendering with CPU so it wastes alot of speed.
And then Scar is also using CPU so those who have weak CPU's is screwed.

Should use the new GPU programming for Nvidia and ATI (CUDA or something?)
Like my CPU has 4x 3ghz… Thats about 9 ghx effective.

My HD48700 from ATI has 1,3 Tflops. (Thats ALOT, but its GPU…not a CPU)
And a 1gb gddr5 GRAM. So if that could be used it could check alot faster for colors. But still…most people don't have 8xxx series and up from intel or 38xx from ATI that support that technology :/

There are a few misconceptions in this post.

First, slower CPU's can handle both scar and Runescape if they change priorities. Not every loop that runescape does is dedicated to graphics rendering. Most are just loops to make sure some event hasn't occurred.

The next is the effective ghz statement. Umm, yeah, 3ghz quad core != 9ghz cpu (or even a 12 ghz cpu…). Each core is independent of the other. A quad core won't make runescape run faster then a single core at equal speeds (EG both at 3.0 GHz), because runescape isn't multi-threaded it won't go any faster then if you had at 1000core cpu vs a single core machine.

As for CUDA/programming on the CPU. Well, for scar you would see no benefit. Scar and scar scripts are VERY serial in nature, there are some things that can be made parallel, but for the most part scar would run slower if it was dedicated to the GPU. (GPUs excel at tasks that are highly parallel and involve mostly floating point calculations.)

So for Future reference, TFlops, Cores, Clock speed, ect != speed. Yes, they represent some of the capabilities of a program, but they don't equate directly to speed. (For example. a single core of a current quad core run at 3.0ghz is much faster then the old P4s run at 3.0ghz, somewhere in the range of 20-30% faster. Ghz isn't everything)

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