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