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Posted by: kenc3dan (Thursday 16 November 2006, 10:09 PM)

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Application support is everything

How about a test with a program other than Cinebench which is KNOWN to support 8 threads like Lightwave?
Especially Lightwave.
We're all learning the lesson that unthreaded or lightly threaded (2 core) applications just don't use the extra cores but the folks likely to want 8 cores probably have a specific app in mind.
How many cores can AfterEffects use? How about HD video editors like FinalCut? The biggest application for 8 cores would likely be Maya - how does that do?

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