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cabernet · 05-06-2008, 09:41 PM

My brother is gonna build his computer this summer and Im thinking about giving him my E6600 dual core intel processor to him for 90 bucks (its only been used for 9 months) and Im gonna use that money to chip in for a Q6600 (I built my computer 2 weeks before the Quad core's price drop and was to lazy to refund it) but I wanna know how much game performance does the Q6600 offer? Right now I got my E6600 an EVGA 8600GTS graphics card, 2gb of RAM running on vista so I guess you can consider that 1.5gb of ram. I wanna actually play games in DX10 (yknow since my graphics card lets me but for some reason isn't fit the handle the heat of DX 10 why'd they put it in???) like world in conflict with decently high settings and maybe a medium crysis... So does a quad core help that much?...

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cabernet Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Waterford Michigan Age: 15 Posts: 75	How much does a Quad Core improve Gaming Performance? My brother is gonna build his computer this summer and Im thinking about giving him my E6600 dual core intel processor to him for 90 bucks (its only been used for 9 months) and Im gonna use that money to chip in for a Q6600 (I built my computer 2 weeks before the Quad core's price drop and was to lazy to refund it) but I wanna know how much game performance does the Q6600 offer? Right now I got my E6600 an EVGA 8600GTS graphics card, 2gb of RAM running on vista so I guess you can consider that 1.5gb of ram. I wanna actually play games in DX10 (yknow since my graphics card lets me but for some reason isn't fit the handle the heat of DX 10 why'd they put it in???) like world in conflict with decently high settings and maybe a medium crysis... So does a quad core help that much?... __________________ EVGA Nvidia 650i Ultra EVGA Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS Intel E6600 2.4 GhZ 2gb corsair DDR2