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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostTalking about multi-core, I found that 7-zip won't run on any of them, even dual-core, which seems very odd. Let's hope the author fixes it pronto, because it is one of the best compression programs, far better than cranky old WinZip, and is free (open-source actually).
HTH.
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Talking about multi-core, I found that 7-zip won't run on any of them, even dual-core, which seems very odd. Let's hope the author fixes it pronto, because it is one of the best compression programs, far better than cranky old WinZip, and is free (open-source actually).
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Originally posted by dude69 View Posti ain't paying.
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i ain't paying.
so i just want the best option of those two, nothing else besides those two options
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A dual core is more than enough for a VS. But if you write software that should use multiple cores than having quad core is very good.
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I'll just weigh in now that I've had a half hour playing with VS2008... It all seems IO bound, so I can't really tell the difference on the number of cores. I swapped in a solid state hard disk, now that speeded things up.
HTH
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Quad will be more than enough - I run VS 2005 on dual core AMD and it's fine, just have plenty of RAM (at least 2 GB), just had VS 2008 installed the other day but have not used it much, but it seems to be more or less inline with VS 2005 requirements.
Best get PC with single quad core, rather than twin dual cores - you don't need Xeons for this, get Q6600 it is a fine quad core chip, I use it in one of my servers, the other one uses dual quad cores Xeons, and more yet use dual cores
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If you are running Vista, as many as possible, a few hundred preferably.
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Why not 1 x quad core for the time being, then you can always drop another processor in at some stage if you need to?
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Quad or eight core?
Have a choice for my new work PC.
I will be running Visual Studio 2008
Either: 2 * Xeon 5320 Quad 1.86GHz. Total Eight cores
Or 2 * Xeon 5140 Dual 2.33GHz. Total Four cores.Tags: None
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