AMD Athlon 64x2 Duo-Core

Why? lol.. have you seen my crappy ass mobo?

AMD Athlon x2 4200+
320GB HDD
2048mb RAM
Geforce6100 integrated (P.O.S!!!!)

I'm upgrading to the 8800GT the XFX alpha dog
 
I'm not that clued up on gfx cards but i know that the 8800gt is a monster. Nothing on my onboard gfx, but its ok. (:D joking:D). Anyways what i meant was that there should be no bottlenecks in the system after u install the gfx card.
 
Another question. What does it mean dual core? Do both cores have 2.2ghz or is it just 2.2 in total?

Or would it be 4.4?
 
^ They both run at 2.2 ghz. You don't add them up, or divide anything - you simply have two cores running at 2.2 GHz

Each core in a processors is actually a processor itself, how this works in practice is something someone else's going to have to teach you.
 
EndofAll said:
I don't get it? whats the point in having 2 cpus at 2.2? it doesn't double it?
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Ok. Your confused lol. The thing is, that first of all if you get any Dual CORE cpu it will have, essentially, only two cores. ALL IN ALL, AFTER THE DAY IS DONE, AFTER THE SCHOOL BELL RINGS, you still only a have 2.2 ghz proccesor. No 4.4.
 
I don't understand.. wtf is the point in having 2 cores at 2.2ghz why not just have one? it's ****ing stupid. I thought my processor was kickass till now.
 
It is :P

I think someone used this cars example... a single core CPU would be a car, and a dual-core CPU would be two cars. Even though having two cars doesn't mean that they together can move twice as fast, they can carry more people at once... so a dual-core CPU gets more done at any one given moment.

A program (game or whatever) only uses both cores if it's programmed to do so, but even if it's not, a game would take up one core for itself and leave the other one for sysyem/background processes, other programs that you have running like anti-virus and so on and so on... so, in theory dual-core means double the processing power.
 
It would be enough (ut not more than!), though you can't expect it to run too smoothly if you have all settings maxed out. Crysis does make use of dual-core CPUs, however... that CPU isn't a real monster (sorry...), but it should play pretty much any current game out there if you turn down the settings a little.
 
EndofAll said:
So it's more then enough to run any high retail games like crysis correct?
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Nothing is more than enough for Crysis:D. But the dual Core question. Say a guy walks home from the store with 20 pounds of food. Now he takes his buddy to the store with him and they both walk home from the store with 20 pounds of food. They dont get home any faster but they got there with 40 pounds of food. Got more done in the same amount of time.
 
StrangleHold said:
Nothing is more than enough for Crysis:D. But the dual Core question. Say a guy walks home from the store with 20 pounds of food. Now he takes his buddy to the store with him and they both walk home from the store with 20 pounds of food. They dont get home any faster but they got there with 40 pounds of food. Got more done in the same amount of time.
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thats my new favorite explaination, im gonna save that!
 
StrangleHold said:
Nothing is more than enough for Crysis:D. But the dual Core question. Say a guy walks home from the store with 20 pounds of food. Now he takes his buddy to the store with him and they both walk home from the store with 20 pounds of food. They dont get home any faster but they got there with 40 pounds of food. Got more done in the same amount of time.
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hehe fantastic explaination,gets stright to the point ;)
 
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