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[Balagor]

I can understand that. I threw mine out long ago. It was a Phenom II 955 Quad 3.0 OC at 3.7 and in another setup I had a Phenom II 550 Dual 3.0 no OC, and the latter was way faster, though rest of the setup (ram, mobo, etc) was the same. Multicore is ONLY for handling applications written for multicore, or at least to give a minor benefit when handling multiple applications. Handling a game, video, what so ever, that is not written to multicore, will NOT benefit from a multicore CPU. You might as well use an good old AMD Athlon x 2 6000 + 3.0 Price: around 30.- bucks

[Retribution]

I think every game released now is quad-core compatible.

[Fonger]

Its strange, I have a quad core, but it's still not that great...

2.5ghz

yes exactly.

But this thread has explained why.

Remember to stay away from the bleeding edge of technology - it only costs extra $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and the software always takes YEARS to catch up ------- heck stay away from leading edge technology for the exact same reason.

Find out what the software you WANT to use can take advantage of and don't bother trying to get better hardware than that.

Future-Proofing is an illusion designed to get you to waste money. Money that could be saved to upgrade your system when the software can actually take advantage of it.

[Thor.]

Remember the 3.5ghz quad is backwards compatible with older software, higher clock speeds, most things these days require 3,0ghz or more on a dual core setup, especially games. Even oblivion required 3.o ghz on a dual core setup.

read the readme if you have that game, it recommended it.

[Fonger]

Remember the 3.5ghz quad is backwards compatible with older software

Even oblivion required 3.o ghz on a dual core setup.

yes, but given "your" average software

how many cores would be used??

Obliv plays fine on a single core. Dual core NOT required and never was.

[Thor.]

Its optimized for it though.. Dual core that is.

[Balagor]

All applications are compatible with multiple cores, of cause, but no games have been written yet to more than on thread. The only reason I have a Phenom II 550X2 Dual is the 2600 mhz FSB and 45 nm architechture. It is much more faster, and way more overclockable (3.7 ghz stable), but I don´t care if it has one or two cores.
And the price is fair; around 75,- bucks

[Thor.]

When the tri comes out its only going to be around 300$, that's not bad at all, big bonus is i don't need to get a new board, i probably already mentioned this, but hey its a buy for me .

Multi core is worth it, games like Mass effect 2 are optimized for quads and the loading times are amazing. Not to mention i have a ssd drive, that can a factor to, 2 secs woot.

funny there is a bug for the dual cores but the quads are working fine with the load times.

http://news.bigdownl...round-released/

[Balagor]

You don´t need multicore for that. I too load in a split sec on my OCZ Vertex SSD drive.

[Thor.]

Note here is the system requiement for mass effect 2, it does require a dual core cpu.

PC RECOMMENDED System Requirements

* Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
* "2.6+ GHz Core 2 Duo Intel or equivalent AMD CPU"
* 2 GB RAM
* ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or better recommended
* 100% DirectX compatible sound card and drivers
* DirectX August 2008

Its what they call for is what you should go by, or else have stutter, jaggs and low system performance.

I think this is gone to far off topic.