Quote Originally Posted by Ticks
Quote Originally Posted by Bradster
Oh ok, when I heard quad I was thinking 4 cpus hehe.
And you'd be absolutely correct. There are four processing units on a single chip. The only downside is that they all share the same memory bus, PCI bus, etc... However, just like the Dual Core, Quad Core performance is extremely close to a four processor system.
multi processor (as in separate die) systems from Intel also share memory and PCI buses... as they all hang off the Front-Side bus which is the bottle neck on all Intel and some AMD systems... the only architecture not currently suffering from this limitation is the AMD Opteron.