raoul_1101
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Ok, I'm trying to clear up a debate between me and a few other people about core 2 duo's and their speeds. Simple quesion.
Suppose I had a dual core running at 3.0 gHz. Does that mean that both proccessors are running at 1.5 gHz or both are running at 3.0 gHz.
My understanding of it, and please coreect me if I am wrong, is that both cores are running at 3.0 gHz. This is because neither core is sharing a proccess with one another, and therefore, you do not add up the speeds of each individual core. They simply split up the proccesses between the two, assuming the program supports dual cores.
The other side of the debate is that both cores are running at half the speed of the total speed, and the speed is added together to get the net speed. This would mean that dual cores would be slower in the fact that it could complete each individual proccess in half the speed, just doing 2 at once.
Suppose I had a dual core running at 3.0 gHz. Does that mean that both proccessors are running at 1.5 gHz or both are running at 3.0 gHz.
My understanding of it, and please coreect me if I am wrong, is that both cores are running at 3.0 gHz. This is because neither core is sharing a proccess with one another, and therefore, you do not add up the speeds of each individual core. They simply split up the proccesses between the two, assuming the program supports dual cores.
The other side of the debate is that both cores are running at half the speed of the total speed, and the speed is added together to get the net speed. This would mean that dual cores would be slower in the fact that it could complete each individual proccess in half the speed, just doing 2 at once.
