Does an OS like Ubuntu 9.04 or Windows 7 automatically take advantage of the 4 cores when you are multitasking?
I don't do much gaming anymore, but I do a decent amount of video conversion, mass compression/decompression of big .rar libraries, run 20-30 FF tabs ect, and I usually have windows 7 up in a virtual box window (running Ultimate Edition 2.2 (Ubuntu 9.04 based)....Atm I'm running a Core 2 duo E6300, wondering if moving to a chip like this with a compatible Mobo would help pick up the performance?
I would love to go 64bit (for the added memory capacity), but atm there are just too many issues with getting 64bit Procs/OSs having random problems with running certain applications, so 32-bit it is.
I'm running windows 7 (64 bit) with a quad core right now and I believe that multiple core multitasking has been improved over vista. It seems to spread the load of heavy use applications over each core (e.g 3ds max) equally but with something small it only uses 1 core. Overall I've noticed a massive improvement over vista.
I'm not sure how optimized winrar is for multiple cores though, but if your moving from a Duo to a Quad then you should effectively be able to run twice the programs at once or at least much faster.
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Does an OS like Ubuntu 9.04 or Windows 7 automatically take advantage of the 4 cores when you are multitasking?
I don't do much gaming anymore, but I do a decent amount of video conversion, mass compression/decompression of big .rar libraries, run 20-30 FF tabs ect, and I usually have windows 7 up in a virtual box window (running Ultimate Edition 2.2 (Ubuntu 9.04 based)....Atm I'm running a Core 2 duo E6300, wondering if moving to a chip like this with a compatible Mobo would help pick up the performance?
I would love to go 64bit (for the added memory capacity), but atm there are just too many issues with getting 64bit Procs/OSs having random problems with running certain applications, so 32-bit it is.
Wondering if this would be a worthwhile upgrade.
I'm running windows 7 (64 bit) with a quad core right now and I believe that multiple core multitasking has been improved over vista. It seems to spread the load of heavy use applications over each core (e.g 3ds max) equally but with something small it only uses 1 core. Overall I've noticed a massive improvement over vista.
I'm not sure how optimized winrar is for multiple cores though, but if your moving from a Duo to a Quad then you should effectively be able to run twice the programs at once or at least much faster.