Quote Originally Posted by 'Megablast',index.php?page=Thread&postID=45064#pos t45064
From what I hear, you would only use the quad to it's full potential running applications programmed for this specific type of processor.
WoW isn't programmed for quad so I'm curious why so many boxers prefer quad core cpu's.
A program doesn't need to take advantage of dual/quad core for you to get a benefit from having multiple cores. If WoW was a single threaded program on 1 CPU and you had absolutely nothing else running on your machine then a 3 GHz single-core CPU would run the game at the same speed as a 3 GHz quad-core GPU, but you could run 4 times as many on the quad-core. Realistically there are hundreds of processes/threads running on your machine at the same time as WoW and the OS tries to balance the load of these threads over multiple cores. So the more cores you have the more things your computer can do at once and quite often this makes programs that need lots of CPU time faster because they get entire cores to themselves.

As far as dual/quad core for dual-boxing you would do fine with a dual.