Quad Core?

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I recently sold some of my old equipment for around £100 and thinking of a little upgrade.

I have a [email protected] currently. Is it worth a jump to the Q6700 or something else?

I do encode and such and the extras cores may be useful, but its primary use will be for gaming.

 

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The quad core will certainly increase your performance in multithreaded apps. In games the increase will not be felt so much - most current games are not multithreaded, so a faster dual core gives you better performance. However, the q6700 will overclock further than 3.2Ghz (i'm guessing your 1.8Ghz chip is maxed out), so you should get a nice performance jump in games.

Out of interest, what is your graphics card? A 3.2Ghz Core 2 should run most games pretty well (gta 4 excluded). It may be a better investment to get a new GFX card like this.

I have a 4850 currenty, which I will hold on to for a bit. Most games play pretty well, besides games such as Crysis.

My other reason in wanting to upgrade is to try out a quad core really. I was hoping for a boost in general computer use, since I browse a lot and open a lot of applications.