dual all the way no question about it , everyday l find more reasons why my x2 dual 4400+ is better than my fx55, right down to gaming online.
Dual core is still better for gaming everyday online, cause you just dont need 3 or 4 gig clock core cpu's, for 32 bit games, face it we could really make a game look sick with 64 bit code , we still use 32 halving the cpu 's potential , your graphics card is more important , so all this rubbish about the FASTEST GAME PC is well rubbish, its really the best bench and now your talking pure overclockers so back to the real world , l own an fx55 and a 3200, 2600, 1800, x800 pro , xt, xtpe, 5600 nvidea fx , 7800 gtx nvidia, well the gtx 7800 is plugged into the dual 4400+, in real world gaming online the fx55 CANNOT COMPARE, the dual never gets backround lag , ALL FX CPUS DO, and as for price fx 57 or 4400+/4800+ dual, there around the high end yea but if you can afford it and if you want the best or close to it price dont really come into it, you just want the best, so l stand by the duals as being a BETTER cpu , not as fast so to speak , but then lets look at AMD and intel, Intel were always usually faster core but the amd could crunch more numbers less clock totally different archutecture,making it FASTER in alot of cases, so ask yourself again how vital a clock of 3 gig really is RIGHT NOW . Then realise with 64 bit round the corner your clock speed is pppfffttt in the wind, they just wont need it for a while yet, they will slap more and more cores together for a while, and when some drivers and program coding comes for dual cores we ll see then the true SPEED of these 64 bit chips, on 32 bit its all limited.
DUAL ALL THE WAY ,been gaming since the commodore 64, NOTHING even comes close to dual online game performance.
l have a broken hand [ roofer work ] so l cut n pasted this from diff topic, as some will notice...
This is that 128 bot bf2 program for any dual core gamers wanting to peak that second core.........
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