Its quad if you want it to last longer and dual if you want more performance now
Completely correct. I would also recommend reading this article http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,1952.html from the main page. It shows realistic performance differences between the 2 chips. Sure they are pretty overclocked but it's still relevant.
if you clock the FSB you can get 12 GB/s. That is the speed for DDR2-800.
PCI Express 2.0 x16 is 8 GB/s, two is 16 GB/s
Quad's on intel need to synchronize threads through the FSB also.
When games (the newest games are scaling well to more cores), the FSB on intel is the bottleneck.
if you clock the FSB you can get 12 GB/s. That is the speed for DDR2-800.
PCI Express 2.0 x16 is 8 GB/s, two is 16 GB/s
Quad's on intel need to synchronize threads through the FSB also.
When games (the newest games are scaling well to more cores), the FSB on intel is the bottleneck.
Actually, It's not a bottleneck.
If you read real-world memory performance tests, you see that there FSB adjustments have little impact in real world performance.
It takes massive increases to see very small increases in performance.
It may be a bottleneck in the future, but it is not currently.
