Soldato
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No. Contrary to what some of the quad-core zealots will tell you, Windows will not feel any more responsive nor will the above programs multi-task any better.
A quad is only of any use if you're doing very computationally intensive tasks, such as video encoding or 3D rendering. Some games are supposed to take advantage of more than two cores but, in all but a very few games, the gains over a similarly clocked dual are slight.
As for the futureproofing or "may as well, it's hardly any more for a quad" arguments, bear in mind that you'll have trouble clocking the quad to the same speed as a dual, will have more heat to get rid of requiring more expensive and/or noisy cooling and will consume more power. If you don't need the extra cores, why incur these penalties?
thx some good points there, definatly leaning on the E8400
