I am planning to buy a new laptop. I am aiming for a High-Performance Laptop (Gaming). This might sound like a silly question, but I notice that it is possible to use dual GPUs to enhance the graphic ability for 1080p resolution. I would like to use dual CPUs as well.
I am thinking about combining two Intel Extreme Core i7 4940MX Quad-Core 3.1GHz CPUs together. Is it possible?
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Let me tell you a few reasons why we do not have multi CPU gaming laptops but have multi GPU gaming laptops instead.
These days games are more GPU intensive than CPU. That is why multi GPU makes more sense than multi CPU. If games were still CPU intensive then the manufactures would have definitely focused on making systems with multi CPUs instead of multi GPUs. Most high end gaming desktops these days are also limited to single high end CPU and multiple GPUs.
Another reason being with each passing year with the improvement in fabrication technology more cores are being integrated on a single CPU die. Thus the need for multi CPU is actually diminishing as more cores are being integrated on a single CPU chip. A multi-core solution is far better than a multi CPU solution, reasons being - better performance, reduced space consumption, reduced power consumption and less heat generation all of which are in favour of building a good performance laptop.
These are the main reasons why we do not a have gaming laptop (till now) with multi CPU solution but with multi GPU solutions. In the future we might have but who knows!
5Many if not all consumer grade PCs these days come with multi core CPUs. These come as one physical chip but act as several different CPUs. This is where the terms dual core, quad core etc come from. There are many games and apps that are programmed to take advantage of these multi core CPUs.
There are machines that come with multiple physical chip CPUs, but by and large these machines are built to be servers. These CPUs work differently than the CPUs in consumer grade PCs.
There aren't any Laptops with more then one CPU as far as I know. If you want to have two CPUs you need a server motherboard (which doesn't fit into a laptop ) Multpile CPUs would cause more problems then they solve so you should buy one good and powerful CPU (that's enough) ;)
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