http://www.digit-life.com/articles [...] lcore.html

Digit-life tests the gaming performance on a single core A64 3800+ and a dual core X2 4600+. Most of these games are quite new and many are multithreaded, as you will find out.

In some games, the difference between SC and DC is almost non-existent. However, certain titles benefit greatly from DC, especially in the minimum framerates department, which is very important.

I still think my X2 3800+ holds me back in games.

-mcg

I heard overclocking does wonders.

Wanna trade for my 3500+ OC'd to 2.55 a.t.m. still running under 40 deg C...

Its good that they included so many games, unlike THG (hint hint, nudge nudge).

Yes sir! 6 years ago THG would have been the place you would expect to find something like this first.

When Tom's has a gas prices article in the main articles section, you know the sh*t has hit the fan.

Okay we get it. Enough Toms bashing. It gets boring.

These are the kinds of reviews that we should be seeing. Go Digit-Life.

But bashing noobs never does, coz theyre all different. Never happened to me when I was a noob, doesnt mean I'm gonna pass on the favour tho.

lol!!! never believe those test! They are never real world.

Do you ever ebay? do u have the ebay screen up while u play?
Do you ever listen to music while u play? Surely u listen to music?
Do do forums like THG while u play?

Do u run 2 screens - do u IM while u game?

You do run antivirus and antispyware? Don't you? Do you turn it off?

Those tests do not take in account any background programs - in all most all cases.

Many games are gpu intensive and use little cpu power - but having a good mutlicore cpu will be a necessity very soon - spysweeper shows 170,000+ threats from 30,000 a few years ago. Spysweeper is the best program to protect your system(start up menu, spyware, browswer hihack antivirus), but you need to run more then 1 - this program will use 50% of most single core cpu's.

Well duh!!

They are purely testing the difference a dual core makes in games alone. It is titled: "Dual-Core Processors in 3D Games". And I never run that junk in the background, leave it off always. I only turn it on to do a scan and then exit it again.

thats why this is a useless thread - people read this and say wow i dont need a dual core - noobie!

Well they dont, if they dont listen to music and run rubbish in the background. If they do run that stuff, then they can decide for themselves if they need one or not.

You calling me a noobie? Lets not get started on post count here lol

Eye-opener. I feel like an @$$ for cheaping out and getting this "crappy" 3700+ a year ago (X2 3800+ was $300 at the time).

Dont bag the 3700, just OC it!

I know; I'll OC it so high that I'll need to get a new CPU!

But seriously, my graphics card is so crappy that I'll never need to worry about this performance difference

What is your card again?

Dragonsprayer, I actually turn off any unnecessary programs before a gaming session.

The article clearly shows cases where dual core is MUCH better than single core. Stop making decisions for people, let them reach their own conclusions.

Only an idiot would conclude that there isn't much difference between a single core and dual core in gaming, especially in this multithreaded age of gaming.

I havent quite reached the multi-threaded age yet My 3700 is still going strong.