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<blockquote data-quote="Kokopelli" data-source="post: 192186">That is hard to say.&nbsp; Multi-threaded Apps in general though.&nbsp; Most &quot;consumer&quot; apps are single threaded.&nbsp; Multi threading apps increases the complexity with little benefit historically since multi processor machines were not terribly common.&nbsp; More and more coders are threading their apps to take advantage of multicore systems, but it is still a matter of the application as to whether it will do much good.All programs will get a small boost from multiple processors.&nbsp; However programs written with it in mind will get a lot more out of them.&nbsp; It depends on what you mean by everyday application, but to use a quad processor machine for browsing and word processing would be a questionable use of money.If you are doing very heavy image manipulation, rendering, working on editing movies, or doing multiple processor intensive things at once, it will help more. I would argue that a quad core box is in the realm of professional needs, not consumer, but many will disagree with me there.This is a very technical question, but the simple answer is communication between cores is faster.Not that I know of.I think of things in terms of coding and how multiple processors effect how I code things.&nbsp; So I am not sure that I am the right person to try and explain in non-technical terms.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kokopelli, post: 192186"] That is hard to say. Multi-threaded Apps in general though. Most "consumer" apps are single threaded. Multi threading apps increases the complexity with little benefit historically since multi processor machines were not terribly common. More and more coders are threading their apps to take advantage of multicore systems, but it is still a matter of the application as to whether it will do much good. All programs will get a small boost from multiple processors. However programs written with it in mind will get a lot more out of them. It depends on what you mean by everyday application, but to use a quad processor machine for browsing and word processing would be a questionable use of money. If you are doing very heavy image manipulation, rendering, working on editing movies, or doing multiple processor intensive things at once, it will help more. I would argue that a quad core box is in the realm of professional needs, not consumer, but many will disagree with me there. This is a very technical question, but the simple answer is communication between cores is faster. Not that I know of. I think of things in terms of coding and how multiple processors effect how I code things. So I am not sure that I am the right person to try and explain in non-technical terms. [/QUOTE]

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