Netbook is failing me...dual core way to go?

Biz.Kid09 · 6 Mar 2010 at 14:45

Ok, My hp laptop broke a few days ago so i am using my netbook as my main pc

...Now i use my pc for football manager 2010,office and internet use, Now my netbook handles all these fine except football manager where it struggles slightly. Now i have seen the Acer Revo's and i was wondering does the second core make a big difference??? will it make football manager quicker?
Cheers guys

Methanoid · 7 Mar 2010 at 14:39

possibly... but you could have course overclock the CPU on your netbook.. maybe 25% with that.. you might notice another 25% or so with dual core Atom or 50% with overclocked dual core... but really depends how sluggish you feel it is?

bledd · 8 Mar 2010 at 09:14

Atom's aren't suited for CPU intensive tasks

Biz.Kid09 · 17 Mar 2010 at 14:30

How do i go about overclocking my netbook and is it easy to do and turn off say when i want to take it places but when im at home and its on a cooling pad i would have it OC'd

Tr Insanity · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:01

Netbooks really don't have much headroom for overclocking, cooling being a problem. Another is that BIOS options are quite often locked on netbook/laptops therefore the OC'ing is often done via software.

nWovance · 27 Mar 2010 at 22:25

Woulden't mess about with a little netbook overclocking and that, surely there heating solution would cry.