Quote from: evilslyM$ have had SMP OSs since NT

They have the ability to support them, but process sharing between the cores isnt handled by the operating system. It shouldnt be the responsibilty of the software developer to institute sharing of a process between the cores, it should be much more low level at the operating system.

To the game/software it should at least have the ability to treat the multiple cores as a single core and let the operating system decide how to share the process between them. Imagine having 50 processes all trying to directly manage dual core processing It would be like a coachload of americans at an all you can eat buffet.

Yer this does look like the obvious road they were heading in... Im still on a singlecore but Dual cores seem to have taken off alot more resently

Quote from: Binary Shadowman the heat from a chip with 4 cores must be hard to shift

Easer than a single core operating at twice the speed. They can count the whole lot as one core that puts out more heat but over a larger area. The reason Intel ditched the speed race was simply the speed increase was far exceeded by the temperature and it just wasnt worth it. Theory showed them that 10Ghz was possible, practice proved it wasnt worth it.

Four cores at 2.5 Ghz will probably put out less heat than 1 at 5ghz.