Quote Originally Posted by Djarid
single treaded applications will be limited to using one of the cores and so will be limited to the clock speed of that core.

but multithreaded apps will spread their load across as many cores as they are able and so will benefit from the quad core over the dual..

the problem is that until very recently most games are not multiprocessor aware and so run in a single thread.
Your new and fast, like you allready =)

I understand, that right now, not many games support Quad core. Next year from what I read it seems that will change. I'm really at a toss up on which one to get. I've looked at the toms hardware benchmark. To be honest I dont really know what i'm looking at.

Gaming
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=870&chart=425

Encoding
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=870&chart=431

If I new how to read this chart it would help me a lot :lol:

I want the fast encoding, but I don't want to SOL because the quad is 2.66 but the core 2 duo is 3.0 for future games.