Quote from Exilementhaha no, it's a Dell Studio XPS with an upgraded power supply and graphics card. I do need a new case though, there's absolutely no cable management in there whatsoever.
I thought she was talking about multi-threading, the i7 is a quad-core but it effectively works like an octa-core in some applications
yeah, i'm sure you know as well as i do that cable management is a plus. if not for better air-flow, just for the fact that i am an ocd fuck when it comes to that. i'm not even satisfied with how my shit is atm.
also, not sure if she was referring to multi-threading or not. to me, it just seemed like she was misnaming the cores.
wait, do you mean hyper-threading? that's when a core is split to act as two, multi-threading is when processes are split so that it gives the user the impression that all programs are running at once.
edit: wait no, scratch that.
"Hyper-threading is Intel's trademarked term for its simultaneous multithreading implementation in their Pentium 4, Atom, Core i7, and certain Xeon CPUs. Hyper-threading (officially termed Hyper-Threading Technology or HTT) is an Intel-proprietary technology used to improve parallelization of computations (doing multiple tasks at once) performed on PC microprocessors. A processor with hyper-threading enabled is treated by the operating system as two processors instead of one. This means that only one processor is physically present but the operating system sees two virtual processors, and shares the workload between them. Hyper-threading requires both operating system and CPU support for efficient usage; conventional multiprocessor support is not enough, and may actually decrease performance if the Operating System is not sufficiently aware of the distinction between a physical core and a HTT-enabled core. For example, Intel does not recommend that hyper-threading be enabled under Windows 2000, even though the operating system supports multiple CPUs (but is not HTT-aware)."
"Multithreading computers have hardware support to efficiently execute multiple threads. These are distinguished from multiprocessing systems (such as multi-core systems) in that the threads have to share the resources of single core: the computing units, the CPU caches and the translation lookaside buffer (TLB). Where multiprocessing systems include multiple complete processing units, multithreading aims to increase utilization of a single core by leveraging thread-level as well as instruction-level parallelism. As the two techniques are complementary, they are sometimes combined in systems with multiple multithreading CPUs and in CPUs with multiple multithreading cores."
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