
I can enlighten you my experiences comparing a 'P4' to a 'Core 2 Duo' cpu (and we're speaking laptops here). one time 64 node cluster supercomputer owner The best way though is to build your own OS from scratch and specify how many processors/threads/tasks can be run in parallel at build time. as are some of the other unix and linux solutions. solaris is nicely scalable for clusters and multiple cpu's. If you want to see the real power of a quad core system you have to get away from M$ and into the multi process unix operating systems. something the "closed source M$ mindset" is totally opposed to. This means many times building your own from released source code, or making it from scratch.
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To work properly multiple processors need specifically built and tailored applications to perform at anything like full power.

full multiuser/multitasking systems are as alien to M$ as snooker is to a sheep. multitasking has always been the preserve of unix based systems. It's easier to write single thread solutions which will run on everything, and can be handled by a signge thread single task monolithic operating system. no other reason) That's all the majority of software will be written for. the home market is something they exploit to keep people locked to them so they will approve it in business and for schools etc. because while the majority of business is still using single core hardware (and lets be straight about something. I don't think this dual and quad core fetish will last.


They will outperform some "higher paper spec" systems time and time again. Some of the old dell hardware running the "real" intel pentium chips are monsters.
