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Old May 10th, 2008   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cottonvibes View Post
since when does it have 6?

i thought it was 8-cores.


usually they're 2^n power.

1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128...etc.


this is done because computers work with binary, and having a number like 6 wouldn't workout as well.
Look at phenom and you will see 3 cores too, it has nothing to do with binary, if the program is made to use 2-128 cores it will use them but if is made to use 1 core the performance will be the same even with 2,3 or 16 cores.
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