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Hi,
Had a debate earlier with a mate who suggested a dual core over a quad core to another friend looking to buy a PC.
Now I was arguing that you might as well buy a quad core, they aren't much more expensive and surely the very nature of it means it's faster?
Could someone please highlight the merits of both and confirm that suggesting the quad core was the right idea!
BTW. His argument is that most software won't utilise all 4 cores, and the clockspeeds of dual cores are higher as standard?
Had a debate earlier with a mate who suggested a dual core over a quad core to another friend looking to buy a PC.
Now I was arguing that you might as well buy a quad core, they aren't much more expensive and surely the very nature of it means it's faster?
Could someone please highlight the merits of both and confirm that suggesting the quad core was the right idea!
BTW. His argument is that most software won't utilise all 4 cores, and the clockspeeds of dual cores are higher as standard?