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To: dougSF30 who wrote (228186)	3/16/2007 12:19:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 275872

You could have, but dual core chips are more likely to give some benefit to normal users than quad core. The speed of each core doesn't have to go down as much, and you get diminishing returns as you go to more cores. A lot of software will only use one core, but the base load of the OS and system functions, and anti-virus software etc. can run on the other. You probably don't need three cores to run that stuff. Also when you consider consumer software that does support multiple cores, a lot more of its supports 2 cores than 4. For many server loads 4 cores can make sense, for systems designed to run specific highly highly threaded software it can make sense as well.

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