People really need to stop using the term "its better for gaming". How many people actually only have a single program open at any given time? A quad is going to allow you to run ALL games better because it allows the operating system, virus scanner, and miscellanious other programs that 99% of people have running in the background to not affect the game. Even if the game only uses 1 core, that means the other programs only have 1 core to use for their junk. If you have a quad core, then its almost guaranteed that you will get at least 1 dedicated core for that game.