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Dual core or not?

chameleon

chameleon

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I'm toying with my next upgrade, might go the whole hog this time and retire my old XP Barton. Is it worth getting a dual core processor at the moment? Or should I just get a nice fast single core? If so, which one?

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erm not too good on AMD but if you wonna go all out and not have to upgrade for a while i would deffinatly go dual core but depends on your budet to what you get.
 
What do you use the pc for?

If gaming I would get a dual core cpu, I recently upgraded from a athlonXP 3000+ barton to a athlon X2 3800+.
In the counter strike source stress test the fps increased from 82fps to 157fps. This has nearly doubled the speed, I got the asrock dual board so I could keep my agp card and have the option to upgrade to pci-e.
I have noticed a big improvement in other games as well.

A lot of games will be made to work better with dual core in the future so i'd get a X2.
 
With Future in mind X2 is the way to go although few current games use it so the benefit isn't so much ( a 3800+ plays roughtly like a 3200-3500+ on current games) until things start to support multiples.
 
The Athlon X2 3800+ is very solid CPU to build a system around today - it's not stupidly expensive and should remain fast enough for new games for several years to come, power consumption is also pretty low. I wouldn't buy single core CPU today.
 
I would go single core and upgrade when a game comes along that you want to play whith supports them. There might by multicores around by then! You would have saved at least £100 initially which would sweeten the purchase of a multi core later, (along with any resale of your say 3700 amd).
 
single cores are soo cheap these days,get on of those,as they perform well if over 2.5/6. As is said not enough games and apps to thrash out a dual core+ they will continue to drop rapidly.

Speaking from experiance here after moving from an opty 146 that did 2.8 and could game at 3
 
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