for gaming? Be realistic man, quad cores do more work than a dual core? wanna see proof? i will send you a mathematical calculation done by mathematica (real time) and it will tell you how long a dual core or quad will take. Quads are a great tool if you are...

a Google search, it appears that both of these programs have issues with dual core processors and there are various work-arounds, none of them as of yet have worked with my situation. i am very confused, how can a program have an issue with dual cores? i've...

rigs for. ~Ibrahim~ You know i heard this very same thing when the dual core AMd's came out Back then it was like "you must get dual core , games in the future will use multicore being multithreaded blah , blah ,blah) The future came and went all the...

things up. It would be smart to get a dual/quad core cpu anyways though because games in the future will be coded to use more than one cpu. Other games with similar results - Flight Simulator X SP1 Test Drive Unlimited Supreme Commander (as mentioned...

Quad or Dual Core for gaming today?. So since I'm in the market for a new PC (and I tried to find some threads in these forums), is there any reason NOT to get the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz vs. the Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz other...

hold up in the future with dual core games. If you are weighing the advantages and disadvantages for the future, then i would say go dual core. There are even a few games that have released dual core patches to narrow the gap between its single core counterpart....

games WILL be multithreaded, both from tha graphics and a CPU standpoint. I'm quite an online gamer and moving to dual core was the best move i've made in a long time (besides grabbing an opteron 165 :D ) Games are making their way towards dual core support...

CURRENT games do not benefit from dual core all that much. If you're looking for a current gaming CPU, Athlon 64 4000+ is the best way to go IMO. However- more games are taking advantage of dual core with each release. My advice is to go dual core. Vista...

core support with a patch There is no such list of games. Maybe thereis a couple of them out there like CO2. As we go and dual core comes to play game developers release patches for games to support Dual Core. ,, All games should support dual-core soon....

FYI re: Dual Core and Gaming.... Got any more to add or comment?. Got any more to add or comment? Yeah, maybe you can create a list of games that fark up using dual core. Like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas! There is of course an easy fix (go into...