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Quad or Duo

matt631

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With the price of the Quad core and Core Duo E6800 almost the same now which CPU do people recommend me getting... (I think the difference is like £10)

Will the new games out that support 2 cores still play on a cpu with 4 cores but only utilise the 2 or am i going to be digging myself a hole by going the whole hog and getting a QUAD.

Can anyone tell me any reason why i shouldnt pay the extra £10?
 
No offence but I think it would be a major waste of money to buy either. A 45nm quad core running at 3.2ghz+ would be nice tho :D Maybe next christmas..
 
If you can afford the better you might as well go for it and when people are upgrading in 4-5 months you will already be done and have a nice quad core.
 
Will this be fitted into a server? A CAD or 3D studio/rendering workstation? A dual core is more than enough for most users, in fact even single core is fine. Dual core comes in handy for heavy cpu usage apps (ie encoding/gaming) If you have even more heavy cpu apps running (encoding music, encoding video, 3d rendering, gaming) I think .01 % of the PC owners need quad core.

Many people think dual core is waste. It is, if you just have many "idle" applications loaded. You don't need dual core for OE, opera, winamp.
 
If it's just for games get a mobo that supports quad cores then just get a 6300/6400 and upgrade the cpu in 6 months once games start to use them (and save a load of money in the mean time)
 
What about for people who use their computers for other things than just gaming?

I use mine everyday for:
Photoshop CS2 - editing files up to 1Gb / processing RAW files etc etc
Encrypting videos
Working with audio files
And of course games ;)

Would I see a benefit in quad cores? I have heard about some Apple machines, (G5 is it?) that run on a quad core but I don't know if Windows allows multi-threaded applications such as CS2 to take full advantage of four cores.
 
DanF said:
If it's just for games get a mobo that supports quad cores then just get a 6300/6400 and upgrade the cpu in 6 months once games start to use them (and save a load of money in the mean time)
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Whats the point he might as well get it now if he has the cash instead of waiting a few months just to save a few quid which he won't do as he has bought the 6300.

IMHO get it, It might be a waste but saves you having to upgrade in 6 months time.
 
Off topic but anyhoo!

I adore my C2D, I encoded Borat from Xvid to a high quality MP4 (For iPod) and Jackass Number Two from Xvid to MP4 both at the same time, both took about 21 mins each, but yay for Dual Core so they both were done in that 21 mins ;) (note: Borat didn't get slowed down at all when I started encoding Jackass aswell, I was amazed, had both instances of Videoora set to High CPU priority also.) Even better was my temps only went up by about 6 degrees!
 
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