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The speed with which the technology has changed with regards to the number of cores inside the processor has been amazing. But is all those cores really worth it? For example a Pentium Dual Core processor has two cores of equal speed working at 1.6GHz which gives you a total speed of 3.2GHz. But will your machine actually use that kind of processing power? Throughout the life time of a processor 95% of these processors never reach 100% Processing Power. Most of the processing power on a desktop machine is taken up by background applications like your operating system, your GUI, the antivirus and in most cases Viruses. And to top it all off these multi-core processors are only supported by very few applications.
Then how do you go about purchasing a new computer?Well the first thing to think about when you are purchasing the computer is your requirement:
Just home use - typing out documents, browsing Internet, Playing a few games and watching movies once in a while - you should go for a AMD Sempron Processor (Celeron only is Sempron is not available)
All the above + Ripping Movies & Music and Playing high end Games, playing around with Corel Draw and Photoshop - you should go for a Pentium Dual Core or an Athlon X2 Processor.
Working with 3D graphics and Autocad? well Core 2 Duo is the answer to your query
Posted by :- Jyothi M John
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The interesting fact is that, gaming industry is going far beyond this. PS3 is using asymmetric cell processors. And who knows what is going to happen to Desktop computing?? All the applications are going web based. So purchase a computer for not more than two years.
Gaming or desktop industry - the way thing’s are going - what you buy today is obsolete in the next 3 months. DDR 3 is making it debut on the new Intel X38 chipset and Hynix is already talking about DDR4 commercial production.
I am now promoting the use of Thin Clients and diskless PC’s for corporate customers - as cost of implementation and cost of maintaining is very minimal and over and above all this they dont have to feel that they bought something obsolete 2 month’s down the line.
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