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11-02-2006, 03:01 PM
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Core 2 Quadro is the new black
Core 2 Duo is old and busted as the Quadro has been released today. Does this mean we can get PokerTracker to import hands at a decent rate? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/...ge/page11.html Seriously, though, is the slowdown mostly a CPU issue or something else? 
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11-02-2006, 03:48 PM
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Re: Core 2 Quadro is the new black
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Does this mean we can get PokerTracker to import hands at a decent rate? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] It wont make any difference at all to PT import speeds, as PT isn't multithreaded and can only make use of a single CPU/core while running the import. The only area it may help with is running PT and other CPU intensive apps at the same time (eg: PT + PAHUD + CPU intensive poker client [eg: WSEX, Pacific, etc]). Having multiple cores will help here, as PT can then hog a whole core to itself without interfering with other apps. Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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11-02-2006, 08:14 PM
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Re: Core 2 Quadro is the new black
Performance gains go down sharply after 1 CPU, because most software + OSes are designed to run on one CPU core.
2 CPUs still are faster than 1, but not by even close to double. Likewise, the perforance gains of 4 cores over 2 cores is much smaller than the gain from 1 core to 2 cores. I would still recommend buying a CPU for price and value instead of # of cores, because very very rarely in your regular computing is the CPU the bottleneck, and the times that the CPU is the bottleneck, 4 cores is very rarely going to be any more useful than 2.
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11-02-2006, 11:03 PM
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Re: Core 2 Quadro is the new black
Yeah, I usually stay one step behind the latest and greatest and save 50%. I was checking some charts. With the Quadro coming out the Duo will probably drop and they look to be about 3x faster as my existing AMD64 3000+. That's worth an upgrade I suppose.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...&chart=193 If history is any indication, I assume I have to buy all new board, memory and everything else too, right?
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11-03-2006, 06:04 AM
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Re: Core 2 Quadro is the new black
If your current system is an Athlon 64, yes, you will have to buy a new board and memory. The only exception is if you're already running on the AM2 platform: then you'll be able to reuse your memory. W/ 939 and the older one, no dice since they use DDR1.
And I agree w/ PG, 4 cores just doesn't make sense for the avg consumer today.
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11-04-2006, 03:26 PM
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Re: Core 2 Quadro is the new black
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Core 2 Duo is old and busted as the Quadro has been released today. Does this mean we can get PokerTracker to import hands at a decent rate? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/...ge/page11.html Seriously, though, is the slowdown mostly a CPU issue or something else? [/ QUOTE ] I suspect, (but have no real knowledge) that the bottleneck is reading from the hard disk.
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