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eight cores 12 cores 16 cores

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it wasn't long ago that just single core cpus were the norm on home computers but

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these days we're seeing ever increasing core counts for less and less money but

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if we can have lots of cores on just one CPU

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what's preventing the powers that be from just putting multiple CPU sockets

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on the motherboard and letting us have even more cores that way i'm glad you

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asked well as it turns out we actually did have multi-CPU platforms for

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consumer-grade chips for quite a long time in fact you can find them going all

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the way back to the pre-pentium days when we were all rocking

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486s in our desktop rigs but

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understandably these setups were quite rare for home users with one of the big

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reasons being simply cost now although a good CPU these days isn't

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exactly cheap it pales in comparison to

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many popular cpus of the late 1980s and

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early 90s the 486 for example cost

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around a thousand dollars when it launched and remember guys this was a

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single core processor another reason was that most applications for Windows were

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simply not designed to take advantage of multiple processor cores i mean this is

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still true to a lesser extent today especially with games but

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multi-threading for most consumer applications was almost unheard of until

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the mid-2000s and if you were doing something at home that would benefit

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from parallel core such as video editing

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well you're back to that same problem of having to take out a second mortgage but

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as time went on silicon prices fell and we ended up with some multi-CPU

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platforms that became somewhat popular with home users

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one was athlon mp released in 2001 with

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the mp standing for multiprocessor it

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was AMD's first ever attempt at a dual socket platform and while it was

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designed with servers and workstations in mind it did gain some traction among

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enthusiasts and a small handful of systems built around athlon mp even made

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their way onto store shelves at local retailers another platform that was more

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specifically focused on home users was Intel's skull trail from 2008. now this

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dual CPU solution was also derived from

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a server or workstation oriented product in this case Intel z online but the

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motherboards had more features that home users and gamers would want like

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overclocking and fewer of the more obscure standards you'd typically see on

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a server board like remote management

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Intel built skull trail as the ultimate gaming platform partly because of the

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raw power that you could get from two cpus and partly because it could support

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multiple graphics cards in NVIDIA sli

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without an NVIDIA chipset which at the time was a pretty huge deal

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unfortunately the platform is mostly remembered as a failure because it was

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you guessed it extremely expensive especially when you factor in the

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high-end cpus that were required in order to use it not to mention that the

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dual cpus didn't provide much gaming benefit even though it was kind of

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marketed towards gamers and enthusiasts AMD's similar quad fx suffered a similar

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fate as performance simply didn't stack up compared to the high costs and

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demanding power requirements these days most folks running dual CPU setups at

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home are using repurposed workstation or server boards but despite the greater

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prevalence of multi-threaded programs these enthusiasts still remain a tiny

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minority of users you see unlike earlier

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high-end platforms where you could only get four or eight cores maximum in a

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single socket shrinking transistor sizes and greater

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power efficiency mean that we can now have as many as 64 cores on a single CPU

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package like what we've seen with AMD's latest threadripper processors and

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especially when you factor in simultaneous multithreading which allows

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one core to work on two or more threads at the same time

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that many cores is enough performance for just about any home user even if

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you're doing something insanely demanding then you've got the fact that

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there are potentially latency issues with having two physical processors on

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the same board that you don't deal with in a single socket system that means

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that multi-threaded workloads even if they are well designed won't necessarily

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scale perfectly when you add more physical cpus which you can learn more

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about in this video on our sister channel minus tech tips so the short

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answer to the question we asked at the beginning of the episode can simply be

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summed up as diminishing returns in much the same way

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that adding a 13th subwoofer to your car couldn't possibly make your neighbors

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any more upset than they already are adding a second or third or fourth CPU

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to your motherboard is probably not going to make much difference to the

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workloads you actually care about but you know what you should care about

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