Weekend Open Forum: How many cores power your PC?

I have a 965 @4Ghz under an H50 at home and an i720 @ 4Ghz at work - use both for media encoding and both seem very quick to me, the Intel part has the edge, but not by much in real world apps, (Windows 7 scores the AMD at 7.5, and the Intel at 7.6, which seems about right) CS4 actually makes better use of the 4 'real' cores than the 8 HT ones. May get an X6 if they update the bios for my AM3 board.

my quad q6600 is only 2.4ghz....how are you getting to 3.3ghz? ive got a 680i sli bfg motherboard...

3x 4-core desktop
2x 2-core laptop
3x 1-core netbook

All these cores and not much software to take advantage of it all. Even if you have 4, 6, 8, 12 what the heck is going to use those cores. Even Server Enterprise version can use Multi-core. I can use the 4 core on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and it will Zoom.. That's the OS, applications would need to be able to access or are programmed to use multi-core processors.

On the 4-core I can have 8 applications running at the same time and watch video at the same time. Still for me to spend money on 8 or 12 core which will be my next move. I'll skip the six core for now.

1 Core. AMD Athlon 3200+ still going strong.

4 cores on my Phenom II X4 955 @3.2Ghz... gets the job done playing Hawx or Dawn of War 2, and the usual web browsing and 1080p media playing stuff

duel core i3 with hyper threading, so that makes 4 @3.32. and 2 in my laptop @1.83Ghz. gets everything done i need to do.

Phenom II x4 940 BE

I have 4 cores - a Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition(@3.5Ghz)

Six. Phenom 2 X6 1090T (OC to 4GHz). Oh, yes indeedy XD

Machine 1: Stock Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.80GHz - 8 GB DDR3 (Quad core with hyper-threading)
Machine 2: Stock AMD Phenom II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz - 8 GB DDR2 (Quad core)
Laptop: Stock Intel Core2Duo P8700 @ 2.53 GHz (Dual core) - 4 GB DDR2

Q9550 and lovin every minute of it. What Core i7 or Core i5?!?!? I'm running right there with them!!!!!!!!

Intel E8400 (2 cores), stock speed, still enough for me in Windows 7.

Upgraded to an i7-920 @ 3.6 Ghz 1.21v in Oct 09 then put an SSD (160GB G2) in the machine on Dec 24. Won't be upgrading for awhile. Will take alook at the i7-970 which is intels 6 core non extreme chip maybe 1 year after its release as a drop in replacement.

I just started folding and these i7s are great.....doing 14500 PPD at the current overclock.

Dual Core on my XPS m1710 (core duo), Dual Core on Qosmio G55 (core 2 Duo), SIngle Core HT (Pentium 4 )on my tower (3.6ghz, 2mb L2), and single core on my eeepc 900(celeron). Never needed anymore power planing on a upgrade to the tower this summer and throwing an I5 or i7 in there.

AMD Phenom II X4 810 quad core.

that cannot be true

Intel E8400 Core2Duo @ 4GHz. on air. Funny my machine doesn't act obsolete, but I still have the feel that it's falling behind the newer offerings. The perceived need seems to focus on the faster DDR3 ram as opposed to the extra cores. Wish I knew someone who could let me try a system with more cores. I don't think the demo Dell et al machines at Fry's can give me a feel.

4 cores here (Core i7 920)

AMD PHENOM II 550 BE , unlocked 3rd Core.

I'm using an Amd 4 core CPU. This is a great machine but I have to admit I don't do half of what this computer can do. I more than likely won't upgrade for a long time. It had been over 5 years since my last Computer which ran the first Amd 64 bit processor at 2 ghz. If it didn't continually keep needing new parts toward it's passing I would still be using it. I build better ones than I own. Lol