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**jimmymac** · 07-19-2008, 11:18 AM

its not that games can't be played on a quad core, its that games don't take advantage of having quad cores.

At the moment there are a few games that will use both cores in a dual core system, in a quad core system they would only use two of the cores. Most games will still only use a single core of the system.

This is why currently its probably just as good to buy a dual core processor as a quad core if your building a gaming rig. In the future games will be created to use more of the cores in the systems, I believe Alan Wake is one such game thats being touted as using up to 4 cores

07-19-2008, 11:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
jimmymac Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chester, UK Age: 28 Posts: 3,791	its not that games can't be played on a quad core, its that games don't take advantage of having quad cores. At the moment there are a few games that will use both cores in a dual core system, in a quad core system they would only use two of the cores. Most games will still only use a single core of the system. This is why currently its probably just as good to buy a dual core processor as a quad core if your building a gaming rig. In the future games will be created to use more of the cores in the systems, I believe Alan Wake is one such game thats being touted as using up to 4 cores __________________ I tried to put my signature in here but my pen ruined the monitor.