Dual Core

[Curry Viking]

Hey, there's one thing about dual cores i'm not too sure on. Say if i was playing a game, do both cores work simultaneously? Or do you only get the power of one core while the other does..whatever?

Thanks

 

[Trifid]

Right now, excluding quake 4, and having XP pro, you have one core on the game, and the other on background tasks. With quake 4, you have both cores working at the same time, and you get a huge advantage with it. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2668&p=8

 

[Nitestick]

i'm pretty sure both cores work together for the total output, its just next gen software is being designed to exploit the parallel processing power. but either way dual cores are brilliant for multitasking. i can play HL2 and encode a movie at the same time.