Resolved How many cores and threads can MS Office use?

IvanH · 2010/12/16

Is there a guideline telling how many cores and threads can be used when multiple MS Office applications are running?

Any performance comparison benchmark for MS Office (e.g. Outlook + Words + Excel + Project) on Intel i5-460M, i5-580M, i7-720QM, i7-840QM ?

IvanH · 2011/01/19

I am still interested to know. Can anyone provide such benchmark info please?

B.t.w., it seems that i5 and i7 are outdating technologies. So, if benchmarks are available for the upcoming Sandy Bridge chips, I'm very happy to know.

Arie · 2011/01/19

"IvanH said: ↑

B.t.w., it seems that i5 and i7 are outdating technologies.
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Eh? Yea, if you wait long enough everything will get outdated

Office 2010 also takes advantage of multicore hardware in a number of ways, adding multithreaded activity to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For instance, all these application use multi-threading to open and save documents faster, Capossela noted. And when you boot Outlook, multiple threads draw the screen, fill in the list of folders, pull up reminders, and preview messages. In Outlook 2007, you might notice these tasks completing at somewhat different times; Outlook 2010 handles it much more seamlessly because of better load balancing among the threads. Similarly, Word does a lot of its pagination in the background.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363800,00.asp

I wouldn't know why this would be important to you, it is not like Office uses a lot of CPU time

Steve R Jones · 2011/01/19

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IvanH · 2011/01/20

Thanks Arie and Steve.

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