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http://www.techzine.com/2009/01/22/w...e-all-4-cores/
Techzine Blog post by Scout.

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nice reviews thanks Scout,

im glad i choose Quad

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for me, there is no point going quad.

Im just gonna get an i7 when he refine the technology and drop power consumption

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i have a question. when you say utilizing all 4 cores, do you mean all 4 cores would be used equally or even just 1% of the core being used would count as being utilized? because even in xp, if i was to check the task manager while at standby, i would see that all 4 cores are used but 1 or 2 of them would be working more than the others. this is also noted in your screenshot of Hell Highway. and i apologize if this question come across as being n00b.

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they will usually reach like 60 - 75% on load, and then start ith the next core...

so not all the cores are working at 100%.

It basically shares the load better, allowing it to be processed more efficiently

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I just happen to have the same processor in my PC (Intel Core 2 Quad 9300) as was in the test, and I would agree with those test results as they are very close to the graphs of my cores when gaming. The main games I play are Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, Call of Duty World at War, Medal of Honor Airborne and Crysis. I always play at the high settings and use a HP 24" 1920x1200 resolution monitor connected by HDMI.

Its interesting that one game will pretty much max out core 4, and another game will max core 3 with the other cores taking up the slack. But when I play any of these games, each of the four cores are are getting a workout for sure.

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DirtyD86

good article. i think saying that quads will be a necessity in 2009 for gaming is a little extreme, and definitely isn't fact based, but good read nonetheless.

tlarkin

The game developers have been saying this for some time now, and I doubt a developer would come out and say yes, we do support all multi-cores and then not be able to do so. That would just look really bad, which is why I opted to buy a quad core. Not that gaming is most important to me, but all applications of all sorts in the very near future and even right now as we speak utilize multiple cores of a processor.

good article by the way though

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Thanks…I am glad you liked it! It means a lot when you call it a nice review!
As you can see...some cores are used more than others. In some of the screen shots you see, they are all used but at different levels and intensity. When my computer is at idle...the cores will spike up to about 5% one at a time.
I was surprised myself…Brothers in Arms is a very processor demanding game. I actually ran the test 3 times just to make sure. The results were the exact same, 4th core wide open.
Thanks for the review! You are correct…it was an extreme statement and maybe I should have chosen my words a little more carefully. Although, some people have a hard time with GTA IV running a 2 core processor right now. I don’t think it is extreme to say that by Q4 2009…dual core processors will be very stressed just trying to play a new release game. That’s just my prediction
Thank you for the review…it means a lot when you also call it a good article. Gaming is not the most important thing for me also. That's what I have read…software developers are really starting to develop programs…even small simple programs…that are coded to utilize 4 cores.

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We shall wait for Alan Wake, I've heard a lot about it and it looks promising as a CPU killer.

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