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by uwool Accepted solution
by michael jay Accepted solution
The dual core is the same speed, in your case 1.6 gig but the real bonus comes in when you are multitasking busy jobs such as a large number crunch while you are playing a complex game and this would bring a single core to its knees. The whole idea is to share the processing load between two processors and this does work well.
Hope this helps.
by uwool Accepted solution
by michael jay Accepted solution
However they are on the same die and do have to share some resources such as the bus and memory controller so the dual core processor will not be as fast as a true dual processor motherboard which has no such shared resources and both processors can operate totaly seperate. To answer your question: Can I capture and encode a video from my camcorder while at the same time play a system hogging game like Sim City 4 without any slowdowns. Yes and no, this will depend on how the software is written and if it can use the 2 processors efficiently, the biggest downfall of dual core is that software must be written to utilize the hardware for maximum benefit.
Also many games have been written for single processor machines because that is what has been the norm for a long time so your Sim City 4 would probably run faster on a 3 gighz single core than a 1.6 dual core.
I cannot write the book for you but to learn the most about dual core I suggest that you google: Dual Core. That alone should supply you with more reading material on the subject than you need.
Good Luck to You
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