Dual Core to Quad Core

[Bundie]

I was wondering if upgrading from a Dual Core to a Quad Core would half my rendering time (considering they are both 2.4GHz) or will it only be a small advantage in speeds

[Kronick]

Hi,
yes it will be an advantage, theorically, it divides the render times, but I think you will gain up to 70%.
Moreover, quad core is not that expensive, so u should take it


I had a dual core, and today, an octo-core, and believe me, that rox

[greeney]

lol showoff lol

id say go 4 it itl speed everything up considderabally. Go for an intel chip too as ive read that they kick AMD's ass at the moment

[geldslaw]

man I just got dual core and already we're at 8? tomorrow will ben 16 then next week 32, you know when I was programming computers with punch cards, and writing out scripts in job control language, and computers didn't have monitors everything was read on print out and eve some departments were getting their print outs on paper tape hahahaha the idea of of just a pc was rocket science.

my first pc was a zpm, and it was a staggering 4.7hertz machine, a 20 meg hardisk was a £1000 a meg, how times have changed. I'm going to go to sleep one night and wake up feeling like rip van winkle, look out my window and be in a world of I-Robots and flying cars, ok don't tell me we got flying cars aready hahahahaha

[geldslaw]

thought this made a point -

A teenage boy and his grandfather go fishing one day. While fishing, the old man starts talking about how times have changed. The young man picks up on this and starts talking
about the various problems and diseases going around.

Teen says, "Grandpa, they didn't have a whole lot of problems with all these diseases when you were young did they?"

Grandpa replies, "Nope."

Teen says, "Well, what did you guys use for safe sex?"

Grandpa replies, "A wedding ring."

[geldslaw]

I couldn't resist adding another joke as were on the subject of upgrading

Girlfriend Tech Support E-mail


I am currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I've been
having some problems lately. I've been running the same version of
DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the
GirlFriend releases I've tried have always conflicted with it. I hear
that DrinkingBuddies won't crash if GirlFriend is run in background mode
and the sound is turned off. But I'm embarrassed to say I can't find
the switch to turn the sound off. I just run them separately, and it
works okay.

Girlfriend also seems to have a problem co-existing with my Fishing 97
program, often trying to abort Fishing 97 with some sort of timing
incompatibility. I probably should have stayed with GirlFriend 1.0, but
I thought I might see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After
months of conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has had
experience with GirlFriend 2.0. He said I probably didn't have enough
cache to run GirlFriend 2.0, and eventually it would require a Token
Ring to run properly. He was right - as soon as I purged my cache, it
uninstalled itself.

Shortly after that, I installed GirlFriend 3.0 beta. All the bugs were
supposed to be gone, but the first time I used it, it gave me a virus
anyway. I had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. I
very cautiously upgraded to GirlFriend 4.0. This time I used a SCSI
probe first and also installed a virus protection program. It worked
okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my
system. I tried running GirlFriend 1.0 again with GirlFriend 4.0 still
installed, but GirlFriend 4.0 has a feature I didn't know about that
automatically senses the presence of any other version of GirlFriend and
communicates with it in some way, which results in the immediate removal
of both versions.

The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some
problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure
language I can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly I think there
is too much attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired
functionality. Also, to get the best connections with your hardware,
you usually have to use gold-plated contacts. And I've never liked how
GirlFriend is totally "object-oriented."

A year ago, a friend of mine upgraded his version of GirlFriend to
GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of
GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year
if you don't upgrade to Fiancee 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he
had to upgrade to Wife 1.0 which he describes as a huge resource hog.
It has taken up all his space, so he can't load anything else. One of
the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it came
bundled with FreeSexPlus. Well, it turns out the resource allocation
module of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus,
particularly the new Plug-Ins he wanted to try. On top of that, Wife
1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do
anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with
MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. I
told him to try installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try
to run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete
MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.0
won't install anyway because of insufficient resources.

Any Ideas???

[walwop]

hi guys

would it be possibele to upgrade a dual core lap top to a quad core? or is there even such a thing as a quad core windows based laptops?

thanks in advance

[geldslaw]

Hey Walwop, the only way to upgrade a laptop is to buy a new one, if you did try it would be so expensive as to not even warrant wanting to do it in the first place. you'll have to do as I am doing wait till october and then just upgrade when quad core laptops are less than £50

[CU441ES]

Hay! Im still stuck with a Pentium 4 :P And what i say, if you can do it, do it! It not gonna hold you back!

[Gettin_Started_modeling]

is there such thing as an octo core processor? cost?