I never paid much attention to the dual core hype. Ok, a 2.2ghz dual core athlon x2.. does it have 2 1.1 ghz cores to equal a 2.2ghz.. or does it have 2 2.2ghz cores?
hmm, since i play games, it wont do much good yet. but once games start being programmed to take advantage of dual cores, it might be worth the upgrade. damn with that much good ol amd power, games should have some pretty awsome physics in the future
I dunno about 99% but pretty much any situation where there aren't a ton of apps running, basically if the situation doesn't lend itself to hyperthreading, Intel can't keep up.