AMD Dual core or Single core for gaming?

[003]

I would get the opteron 165 if I were you, it is about the same price, has double the l2 cache, and it will (99.99% of the time) overclock much better than a 3800+.

 

[BennyV04988]

2.75GHz would be nice 003. What did you do exactly to hit that?

 

[Kazama]

But is it good enough for gaming eh ? ....

 

[Tyler1989]

It's more than good enough and when games are cabable of multi cores and 64 bit code then they will be "screaming demons".

 

[Kazama]

Are you talking about the AMD or Intel?

 

[003]

2.75GHz would be nice 003. What did you do exactly to hit that?

I went into the BIOS and set the HTT to 306

 

[BennyV04988]

thats it?! Did you have to touch the ram settings at all or any other crap like that? I want that setup so bad. Its my dream pc right there. When I get it I will find you my friend...I will have you walk me through step by step

 

[Kazama]

So now Dual cores are better .. RIGHT!, Now which one should i go for gaming? Intel's opertrons and Duo's (Intel D) or the AMD X2 series? That is , For gaming.

 

[BennyV04988]

AMD is the only choice for gaming my man...

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html

Check out any match up you'd like and see that AMD dominates the gaming realm. Opterons arent on that chart but if you OC they fly like the wind!

 

[Tyler1989]

Actually AMD makes the Opterons not Intel. I'd go with the AMD X2 personally but your choices are only the Opterons or X2s.