power of a dual core?

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i was just wondering how they perform.

would it be possible to burn a dvd (this usually makes it imposiible to do anything else at the same time) and say play a good game, or would i need to seperate cpus?

 

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thats weird i cant do anything on my comptuter while burning a dvd or encoding, when i bring up windows task manager it says my cpu is at 100%. this is an amd 3200, should this not be happening?

 

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I had that initial idea at 1st but dual cores good, but I have an X2-4400 and if I burn a 4.3gig DVD off and try and surf I notice the strain and performance drop.

Opening up multiple IE windows and programs seems ok, but if burning or using cd/dvdrom will make it feel like a single core !

Dual cores good but I wouldnt say ive noticed a hughe performance increase or benifit over a single core, but then im not encoding/pushing the system to its limits.

I think just like all things dual cores limited to cd/hdd activity....

that answered my question