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Old 01-14-09   #31 (permalink)
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Dual core is better right now, unless you are doing some serious multitasking. For gaming all you need is a dual core and in the case of gaming a dual core with a faster clock is better than a quad core with a lower clock. Only the newest of games can utilize all four cores.
Yes, but what about tomorrow's games?

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Gaming vs. Photoshopping, respectively.
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Dual are dead... well, maybe not, they can still run vista fine for grandma's computer.
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octocore?
why not octopus then..
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q6600 or at very least q9300 or 9400
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