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Just signed up, so not really sure if this is the right spot so I'm sorry if it is. Me and my friend just had some questions. We wanted to know if I have a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz processor would that give me 6ghz? Also my friend wanted to know what a chipset is.
 
No you just have two 3.0ghz cores, it doesnt add up to 6ghz. A chipset is the North and Southbridge, sometimes their combined into one chip. The Northbridge controls the buses depending if its Intel or AMD CPU//Memory/AGP/PCIe and so on and the Southbridge usually does the IDE/USB/Sata/Ethernet/ISA and so on.
 
To add some confusion to the above post, the estimate processing power on those two cores is based primarily on the software it's running. Certain games/apps will utilize both cores to such an extant that results in performance one would expect from a 6.0ghz architecture, many programs may not be able to use both cores to the same extant, resulting in performance far below that.
 
It just means that you have two cores that can work on different things at 3ghz, instead of using half of a one core processor to download a huge file while you try to play a game with the remaining power of that one core. It's about multi tasking.
If you have two 300 hp vehicles, it means you can go to the grocery store quickly while someone else uses the other car to go to the mall quickly, and you get two things done quickly at the same time. but you don't have a 600hp super car that can do it all at once.
 
Nvidia4life said:
It just means that you have two cores that can work on different things at 3ghz, instead of using half of a one core processor to download a huge file while you try to play a game with the remaining power of that one core. It's about multi tasking.
If you have two 300 hp vehicles, it means you can go to the grocery store quickly while someone else uses the other car to go to the mall quickly, and you get two things done quickly at the same time. but you don't have a 600hp super car that can do it all at once.
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Both cores can be used to do one thing, if it's coded for it. In this situation it is similar to having the processing power greater than one core, by how much is dependent on what you're running.
 
Question within a question:

If you have a slow-ish processor and a high end graphics card, will the cpu slow the gpu down?
 
I would agree but also point out that it's largely subjective based on the game. Many games use the huge processing potential of the graphics card (shader and FPU power is huge in the GPU) and leave the CPU with naught to do but physics calculations. Games like a RTS generally use the CPU to a greater degree than other games..

This in consideration, you're most like to see a bottleneck with CPU intensive games, while a FPS, say, might not readily exhibit bottlenecking.
 
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