Fx 8120 Turned into Quad Core

Yes it would be faster.

Hi  

It depends on the game...BF3 as an example which can use MORE than 4 cores would be slower..

All the best Brett  

Windows has already updated the scheduler to load 4 opposing cores before loading the other 4 tied cores.

Aside from that very few bios out there even allow disabling 1/2 modules, disabling 2 modules = 4100, and no it would not be faster that way.

Just push all 8 to 4.2 ghz, most 8120s can hit 4.4 without any problems.

Hypothetically, sure. In practice, not likely significant.

Cool, thanks guys.

I'll check if the games that I play can utilize the 8 cores. Recently I played a HL2 mod that can only use 1 core.