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Dual for sure. It clocks higher and is cheaper. The 2 or 3 games that show a few % gain on a quad core at some ridiculously low resolution are not worth the increase in price.
People can be happy until they try and run a game like GTA IV on a dual core and then realise their mistake.No one is wrong whichever way they go and if they are happy with what they bought thats the end of the argument.
It's still going to make little difference, if any, in games due to the simple fact that there are hardly any games that make use of multi cores. I was "persuaded" this time last year to get a Q6600 by certain members of this forum and while it clocked to 3.8Ghz most of the time it had two or even three cores doing nothing but suck up vast amounts of power and chuck out enough heat to make a Prescott P4 look like a cool running chip.
Maybe in a couple of year's games dev's will have got off their backsides and program games to use the extra cores it will be worth it (and i don't mean two or three games, that's hardly mainstream). Until then unless you do rendering, encoding and stuff like that, no, it's not really worth it. By then we will all most probably be on new sockets to.
Because 45fps is "soo" good.
We're going to need to use dual cpu i7 systems soon just to max out GTA![]()
extracting rars has much more to do with HD read/write speeds anyway.
why is everyone tellign him to get a Q6600? seriously. The people on this forum dont actually think about the true benefits. They just think ooo another 2 cores and you can overclock it that extra 200mhz. DEFO SPEND 100QUID.
Rediculas. No you dont need a quad. I have one as u can see and i think i only get benefits in supcom from it. Total waste of money for you to upgrade, especialy with new stuff coming which will be substantialy better.
Encoding RARs is mostly about CPU performance. WinRAR has a built-in benchmark, try it on a dual and quad clocked at the same speed and see what I mean. IIRC you need to clock a dual 50% higher than the quad to keep up. It's the same story with multi-threaded video encoding.
Also to C64, I wasn't aware a Q6600 was £150 more than dual core chips. Mine wasn't.