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Title: What Does 256 CPUs Look Like In Task Manager?
Post by: Kratos on August 29, 2009, 01:58:24 pm
http://www.megagames.com/news/html/software/whatdoes256cpuslooklikeintaskmanager.shtml

 :o

I could run GES, Unreal 3, Counter Strike Server all at once with also a stable connection.
Title: Re: What Does 256 CPUs Look Like In Task Manager?
Post by: VC on August 29, 2009, 02:40:27 pm
You shouldn't need 256 cores, or dies, to run three games concurrently.  I admin'd a quad-core that was running two TF2 and two COD4 simultaneously.  The only problem was the bandwidth on the RAM bus I think, COD4 would change maps and TF2 would lagspike for a second.
Title: Re: What Does 256 CPUs Look Like In Task Manager?
Post by: Rodney 1.666 on August 29, 2009, 04:56:41 pm
(http://www.megagames.com/news/graphics/magnify.gif) (http://www.megagames.com/news/show.cgi?&idtype=software&database=244&section=screens&)

WTF


Hoping to see more software I'm interested in that will use multiple cores. I have a quad, but apparently the cores aren't used efficiently unless the software is written to.
Title: Re: What Does 256 CPUs Look Like In Task Manager?
Post by: major on August 29, 2009, 10:34:15 pm
   If there was a way of running games at the SAME time then yeah maybe, but since you can only be playing 1 game at a time and the others are using little resources in the background.

   When I first bought my computer I was running GE,COD4,and Crysis at same time, but since only 1 would be using any processor you could run a lot more. But I ran out of ram (have 4gb) so if you had like 8-16gbs of ram, you would easily run 3 games at once.
Title: Re: What Does 256 CPUs Look Like In Task Manager?
Post by: Rodney 1.666 on August 29, 2009, 10:41:46 pm
I need more RAM. 3 GB isn't completely doing it for me...
Title: Re: What Does 256 CPUs Look Like In Task Manager?
Post by: VC on August 29, 2009, 10:43:44 pm
"since you can only be playing 1 game at a time"

Sounds like someone needs more monitors, mice, keyboards, and an IV of hardcore.
Title: Re: What Does 256 CPUs Look Like In Task Manager?
Post by: Jeron [SharpSh00tah] on August 29, 2009, 10:47:12 pm
haha i misread that for an IV of quadcore