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Phox · Last edited by Phox on Mon May 03, 2010 10:37 am; edited 1 time in total

What exactly do they excel in over lower clocked quads (the i7s that lie in the same price range)? The i5 680 has a base frequency of 3.6 ghz!

Christfuck, you're such a grammar nazi.

Shota · Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject:

>Clockspeed trolling
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i5 680 Dual core, 4threaded
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Is a damn dual core.

Phox · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:21 am Post subject:

Slugsnack · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:26 am Post subject:

Clock speed is not an accurate representation of CPU performance at all.. See here.

Phox

Don't give me steve jobs' bullshit. Read below.

Slugsnack · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 10:30 am Post subject:

First of all there is no such thing as 'excess clocked' so your question doesn't really make any sense. Secondly, pipelining, CPI, etc. has nothing to do with Steve Jobs. You should probably start looking at benchmarks instead if you are actually interested in comparing performance.

Phox · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 10:42 am Post subject:

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:14 pm Post subject:

you answered your own question.

Phox · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:46 pm Post subject:

kls85 · Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject:

It all depends. If a program isn't optimizing for a quad then a dual will benefit due to its higher clock speed.

If a program is CPU optimized then a quad will benefit even if they run at a slower frequency.

It's like packing things to a back of a truck. One has 2 strong men (core i5 @3.33GHz) doing the work, while the other has 4 average men (Core i7 @ 2.66GHz) doing the same thing, the 2 extra men is a advantage since each person needs to run back and forth less, while the 2 strong men needs to do twice as much to get the job done.