Archive: August 6th 2008

August 2008 Newsletter

August 06, 2008 by cmunson in Newsletter
*The Hard Drive of the Future
*Software is Wasting Your Cores
*OverDrive - Once Is Never Enough
*A Faster PC - In 'Any' Language
*Bits from Bill: Top Sources of Free Software
*Malware Survey
*Pitstop Research: CPU Olympics
*Tip #1: XP Tweak Myths
*Tip #2: Remove Old Java Installs
*Tip #3: Print Folder File List
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Software is Wasting Your Cores

August 06, 2008 by Dave in The Pit Blog, hardware

Back in February, Steve Hogan made the case for getting a multi-core system. Rob Cheng's experience shows that dual-core systems aren't always faster though. It's possible for a multi-core system to outperform a single-core system, but you're not likely to see a desktop operating system or many applications that can take advantage of it. There are good reasons for that problem, and they aren't going away any time soon.

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