Dual Core vs Single Question

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lukos

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Hi I plan on upgrading to this PC:
ASUS A8N-E Motherboard
EVGA E-GEFORCE 7900 GT
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core
I plan on using the PC for gaming only (I have a mac). I’m wondering if I should go to the Dual Core even though it may be slower for some of today’s games. Or should I get the Dual Core because they plan on phasing Dual Core into games within the next year. There is about $110 diff from Single to Dual Core.

Thanks
Luke
 
I'd go with the Dual Core, if you can afford it. The performance degredation with single threaded games isn't that significant, and it will perform significantly better with multithreaded games.
 
Get the dual core. Even though the 3700+ performs significantly better in single core games, alot of current games and future games will be mult-threaded.

To name a few, Call of Duty 2, Quake 4, and a few others have dual-core patches.
 
Dual Core for future proofing. I am starting to see more programs that take advantage of the dual core, like my Raw Shooter Premium photo editing program.
 
Even single threaded apps can take advantage of dual cores. Since with a dual-core, the workload is split between the two processors, so you can be scanning for viruses, watching a DVD movie, or encoding something, and you wont notice much of a slow down, unlike single cores.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
Even single threaded apps can take advantage of dual cores. Since with a dual-core, the workload is split between the two processors, so you can be scanning for viruses, watching a DVD movie, or encoding something, and you wont notice much of a slow down, unlike single cores.
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well put :)
i can pretty much do whatever i like and never slow down. in fact, i run out of memory before my cpu slows down normally lol... ughh i wanna upgrade that.
 
Well if I were you and not in a hurry, just wait till this winter or the ending of it when new stuff comes out :) Moo..
 
yep, i bought my dual core because i prefer to play music and keep AIM open while im playin UT2004... my old 3400+ would always lag 4 me...
some new technology is comin out soon though, i'd say im not gonna get it though, because the biggest thing will be the Physics processing unit and i can just throw that in a pci slot.
my cpu performs damn well for the price too lol $325 for something better than a 4800+ lol
http://computerforum.com/showpost.php?p=309272&postcount=18
 
Dual Core for future proofing.
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now that is a bold statement :)

Even single threaded apps can take advantage of dual cores.
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how does that work :confused:
I know what you mean, that since all machines are running multiple threads then any single thread is processed of a less burdened core. But to say that this situation comes about as a result of the action of anyone thread is a little misleading

Overall choosing is more a case of getting the best for your budget, not the setting you budget to the chip.

Sure dual core is better and worth the cost for most tasks. But can you afford it? would the cash better be spent elsewhere?
 
apj101 said:
how does that work :confused:
I know what you mean, that since all machines are running multiple threads then any single thread is processed of a less burdened core. But to say that this situation comes about as a result of the action of anyone thread is a little misleading

Overall choosing is more a case of getting the best for your budget, not the setting you budget to the chip.

Sure dual core is better and worth the cost for most tasks. But can you afford it? would the cash better be spent elsewhere?
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I should have worded it differently, i didnt mean to say that one single threaded app will benefit, i meant that when you have multiple single-threaded processes, it gets split between the two cores.
 
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