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im thinking about selling my 3800 and buying a dual core, but will i see a big preformance increase? all i really do is game and get on the net? what exactly is the purpose of a dual core?
is an fx a dual core?
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I would say that in a majority of games, you will notice a decrease in performance, simply because there are still alot of games that arent dual-core optimized, and some dual-core games still dont show that much of an improvement.
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ok well how are the fx's? and why was my 3800 cheaper that lets say a 3500? i bought my 3800 for 160 then at microcenter thier 3500 is 250. is the 3500 better?
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wait a year for multi cores to get better support then buy one. you wont get much benifit from them yet.
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