How many CORES do you run ?

[jerrrys]

I have a dual core, but lately was wishing it was more.

[Redblade20XX]

Currently an amd dual core. About to upgrade to the amd 8 core. Need it for building software.

[sffvba[e0rt]

I technically have 4 cores...


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[dpny]

6.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

On my home computers, 2 or 4 cores.

At work, between 2 and 12 cores.

[yiqying]

I voted 2 cores. It's a dual core but it does have hyper threading so its viewed as 4 cores. Physically its only 2.

[arclance]

At home 2 dual cores and one hyper-threaded quad core.
At school we have a 256 core computational cluster running some form of linux.

[keithpeter]

Quad core Xeon in a recyled HP xw6200 workstation. Quite fast enough at present, and keeps the room from getting frosty.

[MisterGaribaldi]

I really don't like cores myself. They're hard and fibrous and usually have seeds in them.

Oh, you meant in my computer? 2 cores.

[codemaniac]

Hey theoretically i have 2 .

[Mariane]

0

I'm supposed to have 4, but none of them currently function :-(

[pommie]

6 AMD 1050t

Cheers David

[synaptix]

Quad-core, wish I had a 6 or 8 core though. :)

[CharlesA]

quad on my desktop and quad-hyperthreaded on my server.

[Copper Bezel]

One. And my first tablet (picking it up this summer) is going to be a quad-core. I'm a somewhat silly person.

[Lucradia]

I have an AMD Phenom II X6, so I literally have 6 cores.

(Intel often adverts their Hyper-Threading to get virtual cores, which aren't cores.)

Honestly, I only need four cores. Wish I could lock down my two extra cores and devote them to helping the other four work better.

[LowSky]

Honestly, I only need four cores. Wish I could lock down my two extra cores and devote them to helping the other four work better.

I'm pretty sure that is how they work to begin with.

I got 6 cores too.

[Bandit]

I'm pretty sure that is how they work to begin with.

I got 6 cores too.

Well yes and no. Some applications I notice still only use one core. Now the OS will load balance as much as possible, but if the application isnt written for SMP it will only run on one core. I think some compilers will take care of making sure the program will utilize multi-core during the compile process if enabled. But not sure anymore.. LOL

[bfmetcalf]

I have 4 in my Intel I7. It is hyperthreaded though, so it does appear as 8.

[timsdeepsky]

I have AMD Phenom II X4 Quad-core 970 3.5GHz Black Edition Processors....I figured on moving up to 8 core when i got close to maxing this one out....After installing an Antec Liquid Cooling System to cool them more and get rid of the fan noise,,,,i am not even close to burying my quad cores....

[bfmetcalf]

Yeah, I think it will take some time before quad core CPU's are behind the times. They only thing that makes mine run anywhere near full is handbrake, which I think would use close to max CPU no matter how many cores you had!

[lisati]

My server (approx 7 years old) is a 64-bit single core machine - fairly modest specs by today's standards, but it works, and it's definitely more suited to the task than the 12+ year old machine sitting on the floor next to it.

Both my laptops are 2-core machines.

I haven't bothered researching what's under the hood of my entertainment gear or phones.

[LinuxFan999]

Quad core currently.

[Bandit]

I have AMD Phenom II X4 Quad-core 970 3.5GHz Black Edition Processors....I figured on moving up to 8 core when i got close to maxing this one out....After installing an Antec Liquid Cooling System to cool them more and get rid of the fan noise,,,,i am not even close to burying my quad cores....

Yea got a Phenom 9850 (2.5GHz Quad) and may burry the cores to max once or twice every couple of months. No real reason to upgrade other then I want to and going to use this mobo, ram and cpu for my daughters pc I am putting together for her. Prob going to get a FX 3.6Ghz 8 Core and 16GB of RAM for my new one.

[farrinux]

Depends on what machine I am on. I have a 6 core gaming machine and 2 socket 939 machines, one streaming netflix and web to my home entertainment and this my main work computer. Last but not least is a soket "A" machine that will be retired to the garage as an ODBII scanner and a dual core phenom put in it's place hopefully setup as a media server to my house. My first try at setting up a server. Right now all the machines dual boot because they were all windows machines. But all of my new builds will be stritly Linux.

[sandyd]

I use a Dell T7400, two X5492 processors. Bit old, but I haven't seen any reason to upgrade yet

I use two X7460s (It actually didn't cost as much as it should have. Its one of the good things about off-lease stuff) in my server, running vmware ESX.

[ridetheteapot]

64 cores.... tile64 ;-P
lol nah, just 4 on the desktop and 2 on my lappy.

[Bandit]

64 cores LOL...

Serious note if they made a good single or dual chip motherboard these days that would run a AMD Operton I would have a 12 or 24 core system.. But.... they dont.. :(

[leecheroflife]

Currently running a Dual Core, it's a black edition Phenom that wouldn't unlock unfortunately, but it still does the trick for me:guitar:

[jerrrys]

64 cores LOL...

Serious note if they made a good single or dual chip motherboard these days that would run a AMD Operton I would have a 12 or 24 core system.. But.... they dont.. :(

I think the HP DL585 was the last of that breed

[Mars11]

My server (approx 7 years old) is a 64-bit single core machine - fairly modest specs by today's standards, but it works, and it's definitely more suited to the task than the 12+ year old machine sitting on the floor next to it.
Haha, my home server is ~14 years old. It has a 32-bit single core processor at 333MHz with 128MB of RAM - it's far from modest specs (Minimum requirements for Windows XP), but it runs Ubuntu Server 11.10 just fine with as a FTP/Samba File/Samba Printer/CUPS Printer server.

The laptop I'm currently using has 2 physical cores, but 4 virtual cores. It can pretty much do anything I throw at it.

[KL_72_TR]

I have one PC with a Core 2 Duo E 7500.
But right now I'm using a 2002 mobo with Celeron 2.40GHz.

[BertN45]

One):P

[gandalf3]

one as well, but it's hyper threaded, so my machine sees it as two (i voted one though)
pentium4 3.2 ghz.
wish it was like a core2 quad or something.. :/

[linuxyogi]

PC1

Athlon 64X2 5600+

PC2 (old)

Celeron D 2.13 Ghz

[arclance]

64 cores LOL...
I have used 10 cores of the 256 core computational cluster at my college before.
It cut the processing time for each data set I collected for my research project down to 2 hours, from 48+ hours on my desktop.
Since you only need a terminal to run Octave I did everything headless over ssh.

[Max Blyss]

Dual core Pentium P6000 in the Lapatop, and a weird single - core Athlon 64 3500 in Frankenbox 1. Dual Core Pentium 4 in Frankenbox 2... (Both Frankenboxes are rebuilds of old HP Pavillion units from '04 and '05 that relatives THOUGHT didn't work anymore because they borked up their *******...:lolflag:)

[Bandit]

I have used 10 cores of the 256 core computational cluster at my college before.
It cut the processing time for each data set I collected for my research project down to 2 hours, from 48+ hours on my desktop.
Since you only need a terminal to run Octave I did everything headless over ssh.

Yea I wished I had the money (and place to put it) to build me a beowolf stack. 10x mATX boards with 8 core chips.. 80 cores to burn just under $5000 smackers!

[markp1989]

4 physical with HT so 8 logical, I voted 4