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Originally Posted by subferno
I would like to purchase Intel's Kentsfield or the quad core system sometime next year.
I have a few questions concerning this technology:
1) How come each core has a lower clock speed than what is the fastest CPU out right now?
2) If I multitask a lot or if I do video editing/encoding, would there be any bottlenecks in other hardwares? Like the processes trying to write to the harddisk at once, etc?
3) Does quad core let me use both 32 bit and 64 operating systems?
Thanks
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1) Just stop. The Kentsfield E6600 has 2.4Ghz for each clock. If you know anything about the Core2s you'd know that these are goddamn fast. Just because it has 4 cores doesn't mean it's gonna have faster clock speed than a dual core. It's the same architecture.
2) You would probably benefit from having more than one hard drive to write and read from because hard drives are slow.
3) Yes. Every chip made now is 64-bit with backwards compatibility for 32-bit applications. Wait until Vista is released for switching to a 64-bit OS. XP 64-bit is a bad idea.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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