Y’know, I know this is a joke, but back when I did contract work, I legit had a client do this. They bought two i3-2100s because 3+3 equals 6 and that’s more than a single i5.
Back when 3g was the hot new cell service. My friend called me up, stoked, because he upgraded his grandfathered unlimited data plan with verizon past 3g all the way to 5g, and for only 10 bux more per month!
Actually, he got swindled into giving up his plan for one with a 5gig data cap.
So, you joke about that, but there was a time when that was absolutely the strategy. Right around the Pentium 3 era, there was an enthusiast motherboard that came out with two sockets, and the hot advice was to get that motherboard and a pair of Celerons rather than a Pentium 3.
AMD’s first multicore CPUs were pretty much two single-core ones taped together. AMD didn’t bother designing the CPU such that it shared anything between the cores.
“The good CPUs were very expensive so I just bought two cheap ones, that should be ok right?”
Y’know, I know this is a joke, but back when I did contract work, I legit had a client do this. They bought two i3-2100s because 3+3 equals 6 and that’s more than a single i5.
Back when 3g was the hot new cell service. My friend called me up, stoked, because he upgraded his grandfathered unlimited data plan with verizon past 3g all the way to 5g, and for only 10 bux more per month!
Actually, he got swindled into giving up his plan for one with a 5gig data cap.
So, you joke about that, but there was a time when that was absolutely the strategy. Right around the Pentium 3 era, there was an enthusiast motherboard that came out with two sockets, and the hot advice was to get that motherboard and a pair of Celerons rather than a Pentium 3.
AMD’s first multicore CPUs were pretty much two single-core ones taped together. AMD didn’t bother designing the CPU such that it shared anything between the cores.