Planning on Building a PC

[IronyTaken]

Link me a dualcore gaming build that can run metro 2033 on high.
Oh wait, you can't.

While quadcores don't use all 4 cores doesn't mean only 1/2 cores will be used in total.
If I'm not mistaken Windows shifts stuff to the other less loaded cores thus giving you more power for your cores.

I can play Metro 2033 at directx 10 very high settings just fine with my dual core.

I used;

AMD Athlon X2 5200+ 2.7 ghz
8800GT OC
2 gigs of DDR2 800mhz RAM

[SnOwBunZz]

I can play Metro 2033 at directx 10 very high settings just fine with my dual core.

It was sort of a discouraging statement rather than a fact.

You're going to shoot yourself in the foot a few times if you want a new gaming PC and buy a dualcore instead of a quadcore just because games aren't optimized for quadcores yet.
(and I wrote this after a sleepless night, so I cba to think of a game that doesn't run well on a dual)

[IronyTaken]

It was sort of a discouraging statement rather than a fact.

You're going to shoot yourself in the foot a few times if you want a new gaming PC and buy a dualcore instead of a quadcore just because games aren't optimized for quadcores yet.
(and I wrote this after a sleepless night, so I cba to think of a game that doesn't run well on a dual)

Yah I understand what you are saying just wanted to go over that point.

I built my PC around 3 years ago so that is why I went for dual core back then.

But if I were to build another right now I would go for a quad core.

[matey]

Alright thanks

how big is the price difference though?