Quad core cpu

[deletedforumuser]

How many cpu does a quad core have...sorry for asking here.

[cpjust]

quad = 4
dual = 2

[deletedforumuser]

Thank you, my friend just doesn't trust me...lol

[Salem]

Moved (nothing to do with C++).
Please ask your random technical questions on the tech board.

[iMalc]

Also:
Hexacore = 6 cores
Octacore = 8 cores

Glad we could clear that up

[Neo1]

Also:
Hexacore = 6 cores
Octacore = 8 cores

Glad we could clear that up

Remember Pentacore = 5 cores

[SlyMaelstrom]

It's worth mentioning that people are answering a question that they assumed you were asking, however, worded incorrectly. To answer your question more pedantically: A quad core CPU has (or rather is), as the article implies, a single CPU with four cores. There is a significant difference between four cores and four CPU.

[abachler]

It's worth mentioning that people are answering a question that they assumed you were asking, however, worded incorrectly. To answer your question more pedantically: A quad core CPU has (or rather is), as the article implies, a single CPU with four cores. There is a significant difference between four cores and four CPU.

Technically there COULD be a difference, but in current implimentations there isnt.
The only current difference between a dual core and 2 seperate processors is the combined cache on some models. Other than that they are physically and electronically independant, although usually rendered on the same substrate.

If you want to get pedantic, there is no such thing as a quad cpu, since the CPU is actually the entire case motherboard and all the chips on it including the processor. The use of CPU to mean the processor is a laymans term, but generally accepted even in techncial discussions.

[robwhit]

> the CPU is actually the entire case motherboard and all the chips on it including the processor.

It is clearly not. The CPU is a discrete component in almost all non-embedded computer implementations. The main chips on the motherboard are the North Bridge and the South Bridge. Sometimes those two are integrated together. Perhaps that is what you were thinking of?

[matsp]

I'm with Robwhit here. There are (what's call ignorant) people who call the whole computer a "CPU", but technically, the CPU in your system is your AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium (etc). The rest of the chips are "periferals".

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Mats

[abachler]

> the CPU is actually the entire case motherboard and all the chips on it including the processor.

It is clearly not. The CPU is a discrete component in almost all non-embedded computer implementations. The main chips on the motherboard are the North Bridge and the South Bridge. Sometimes those two are integrated together. Perhaps that is what you were thinking of?

Sorry you and matsp are wrong on this matter. The original use is so old that I won't get into it with you, but that was its original meaning.

Yes, a motherboard does handle multiple processors differently than a single muticore processor. In particular, a multiple processor motherboard must be Intel Multiprocessor Compliant, where a motherboard does not need to meet this requirement to supprt a multicore processor.

[SlyMaelstrom]

Sorry you and matsp are wrong on this matter. The original use is so old that I won't get into it with you, but that was its original meaning.

Oh, sorry abachler. We're just too young to understand anything.

Why don't you tell us now what REAL music is. Certainly not that hippity-bop we listen to.

Yes, a motherboard does handle multiple processors differently than a single muticore processor. In particular, a multiple processor motherboard must be Intel Multiprocessor Compliant, where a motherboard does not need to meet this requirement to supprt a multicore processor.

Hmmm, even these motherboards are Intel Multiprocessor Compliant? Sounds like a monopoly on the multiple socket industry to me.

[matsp]

Sorry you and matsp are wrong on this matter. The original use is so old that I won't get into it with you, but that was its original meaning.

Well, in the old days [when the CPU of a system was the size of a fridge, and consisted of hundreds of (or more) discrete chips], the periferals (like hard-disks, tape-machines, etc) where indeed in separate boxes [again, the size of a mid-size fridge].

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Mats

[vart]

And how do you call the CPU with 16 or 32 cores?

[robwhit]

> And how do you call the CPU with 16 or 32 cores?

Multi-core.