cpu question..

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i currently run a athlon 64 2.2 939 cpu and am thinking of a slight upgrade.
would i be better off getting a athlon64 dual core running at 2.0 or get a single core at 2.4? does dual core make it better even though it is a little slower?


thanks for any suggestions.:D
 
It is not slower at 2ghz because you have basically two processors which would equate to 4ghz combined.
 
It is not slower at 2ghz because you have basically two processors which would equate to 4ghz combined.
It's just simply two cores running at 2GHz each. The speed is not combined.

suske, get a dual core. It's not about speed anymore. You can do alot more with a dual core, than a single core.
 
It's just simply two cores running at 2GHz each. The speed is not combined.

suske, get a dual core. It's not about speed anymore. You can do alot more with a dual core, than a single core.


the reason i asked was as i understand it dual core handles running multiple apps
better than single but are games considered a multi app?

these are the two cpus i am looking at:

Newegg.com - AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Toledo 2.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor - OEM
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Newegg.com - AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 2.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor - OEM
 
Currently most games are single threaded. But soon all games coming out, will be multi-threaded. So get a dual core.
 
well if c2d well start be putting to use in gaming with soon to be future games. is there even a point to invest in the quard core in the end of july? Since games are just barely starting c2d... wouldn't that mean quad will even be a lot later?
 
Well it is hard to pass up a quad core(Q6600) around the same price as an E6600 now, on July 22.
 
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