I'm looking at building a new computer very soon and i'm not sure if i should go with dual or quad. In 1 or 2 years with all these new mmorpg like Aion and Soul & Blade is it beneficial to go with quad or no?
Reputation: 10I'm looking at building a new computer very soon and i'm not sure if i should go with dual or quad. In 1 or 2 years with all these new mmorpg like Aion and Soul & Blade is it beneficial to go with quad or no?
lulz i got a quad core :P
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Reputation: 228i haz quad core too, but i think i made the wrong choice. lulz.
i have quad core 2.4 with 4 gb ram, running VIsta 64 bits perfectly, takes me 15 seconds to restart computer xD and 0.5 second to open firefox :P
and there are many programs and games that are using all of themm,, you just dont hear it on the news... its not like you will see "quad core compatible" on the back of a game box.
To me quad was worth every penny xD
Btw dont get Quad core if its not the G0 revision, the ones that are not this revision are having heating problems
When I got my new computer about 6 months ago, I read online it's better (for example) to have a 3.01ghz x dual core (my computer), than a 2.4ghz x quad, or anything lower than 3.01.
Quad won't be able to be utilized for a long time, and even then, dual core is more efficient.
You fail. Yes, quad won't be FULLY utilized for a little while longer but it IS currently being utilized. But then you fail again, you see, once quads are fully utilized by programs they will easily be more efficient than dual cores. Heck, even now they are more efficient if you know how to set core affinity.
First of all: It's DUO core not DUAL. Dual is old technology.
Anyway, get duo. Not quad. Quad is usually low processing speed per core unless you want to spend a TON of money. I'd suggest a duo with 3.0+ ghz processing per core. Mine is the 3.16ghz version of intels duo core. For around the same price I could have got the Quad 2.4ghz. That would have been dumb of me, though, because there are few programs today that utalize 2 cores, much less 4. And there won't be 4 for a long time. I'm still waiting for programs to catch up to me to use my 2 cores. If I could, I'd gladly trade my 3.16ghz duo for a 5ghz single core right now.
By the time 4 core technology is common in programs..they will have 8, 12, 16 something like that core processors and your 4 core you buy today will be worth jack squat.
So, anyone who has bought a quad core processor was a moron.![]()
lol most games don't fully utilize 2 cores let alone 4,I would just save my beans and get an i7.
E8400 - E8500 is your best bet if your on a cash restricted diet,GA-EP45-UD3P is nice cheap board and ram they practically give away.
Can easily OC the E8400 to 4ghz on that board.
Also beat them to 6.5ghz
Reputation: 198overclocking even needed to have smooth gameplay if you have near-top of the line processors and graphics cards and other parts? unless you are a graphics ***** and plan to play Crysis on the ultra maximum settings, I don't think its even needed to overclock right?
and if i remember, overclocking constantly will permanently crack your computer.