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adion:
I know, that's my point. Games are coming out that support dual core. Not much in the way of quad core support yet. But like I said, that's the only thing I'm iffy about. I think I'll get a quad core in the hopes that more games come out soon supporting it. I also don't want to buy a new CPU a year from now.
PowerMac:
--- Quote from: adion on June 09, 2008, 11:13:47 PM ---I know, that's my point. Games are coming out that support dual core. Not much in the way of quad core support yet. But like I said, that's the only thing I'm iffy about. I think I'll get a quad core in the hopes that more games come out soon supporting it. I also don't want to buy a new CPU a year from now.
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Well if it is multi-threaded to support a dual core processor then it also supports a Quad Core processor. Windows will just allocate the threads to whatever core has the most resources free.
adion:
Yes it'll support a quad core, but it won't use all four cores. Here's a review that shows this relatively plainly. The review shows how amazing the Q6600 is at overclocking but that's not what I'm interested in here...
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q6600_8.html#sect0
As you can see, only a few games actually use all the cores (on that page there Supreme Commander and sorta Lost Planet). I'm trying to find a list of games that are multithreaded, but basically, there aren't many.
NaRu:
Crysis also uses 4 cores
mgz:
yea if your just running the game thats fine but with 4 cores you can spread shit out and make it so the 2 cores being utilized are just that
which i why 4 core ftw
if your going for performance numbers and have nothing but os and game running then yea obviously for a majority of games dual core wins and for older games 1 amazing single core could prlly do the same
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