One of the frustrations with my old AMD Athlong system was that if it was doing one thing, like copying files, it was almost unusable for anything else.
I've got the new Q9400 system in place, copying files to it over the network. While copying I thought I would do a little test. So I've got one window open copying about 100MB of files over the network, I opened an instance of superpi and set it to calculate 32M, I've got a couple of other windows open browsing the net, so I go to tvguide.com and start watching videos. I don't have a single hitch with the videos.
Maybe I could do this with a dual core, maybe not. I decided to get a quadcore so no matter what else I've got going I can still use the computer for something else.
I've got the new Q9400 system in place, copying files to it over the network. While copying I thought I would do a little test. So I've got one window open copying about 100MB of files over the network, I opened an instance of superpi and set it to calculate 32M, I've got a couple of other windows open browsing the net, so I go to tvguide.com and start watching videos. I don't have a single hitch with the videos.
Maybe I could do this with a dual core, maybe not. I decided to get a quadcore so no matter what else I've got going I can still use the computer for something else.