intel i7 980x question

[Squilliam]

NJ5 said:

Squilliam said:
Most applications made today have been made X core aware in that they are designed to scale to as many cores as applicable.

Are you sure about that? I'm sure there are some applications, but to say "most" might be an overstatement.

There's also the issue that some applications are poorly optimized for more than one core, to the point that it's sometimes better to disable multi-core. That could also easily be the case for an application which tries to be smart-ass, scaling itself to more cores than it can correctly use.

Scaling should be very easy for embarassingly parallel stuff like server applications, in which case you're likely right. But for other cases I have my doubts.

 

Sorry, I should have said most taxing software. Is that better?